How to Use ballplayer in a Sentence

ballplayer

noun

• In this way, the effect of the Wild Card on viewers and ballplayers is the same.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• Face it, Bill, Tatis is a great young ballplayer and the Dodgers lost to a very good team.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
• After the game, the singers and the ballplayers reunited on the field.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 2 May 2017
• Willie Mays was the best all-around ballplayer, a showman for the sport and a good man.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2024
• Really, though, any of the rest of the ballplayers would have done the same thing.
  — Eric Adler, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• Not Garth Brooks the country star but Garth Brooks the ballplayer.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
• The next day, Ohtani said, Mizuhara told the agent the ballplayer had paid the interpreter’s debt.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The gap between how ballplayers and fans lived was not so wide.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• There aren’t too many guys who are good ballplayers and nice guys, too.
  — John Lowe, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2020
• There is a part of both of them that will always feel like a ballplayer’s kid.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2021
• The ballplayers are their kids, in two-month bursts every year.
  — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 22 June 2017
• The ballplayers are their kids, in two-month bursts every year.
  — Matt Viser, Town & Country, 22 June 2017
• Just a great teammate, great friend and he’s a ballplayer, man.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• Screaming bystanders and ballplayers fled to get out of the way.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• The former all-star is the son of former ballplayer Gary Matthews.
  — Neal J. Leitereg, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• There are a lot of good ballplayers out here, in all levels.
  — Rich Mayor, Naperville Sun, 27 July 2017
• No doubt the two young ballplayers would have gotten on well.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
• The house remained on the market for the same price — but unavailable for the star ballplayer.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
• My favorite ballplayers are the guys who refuse to leave peaceably.
  — Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
• Those guys have got to come on and mature and become good ballplayers.
  — Colin Barnard, The Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Think about how many times a ballplayer touches their face.
  — Fox News, 2 June 2020
• The shutdown, which could last about four years, means that park’s ballplayers will have to go elsewhere.
  — Andrea Salcedo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2019
• The ballplayers in this clubhouse — these kids — never saw Bo play.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• Those ballplayers wouldn’t get away with this junk if Lou were here, nossir.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Tapia is a non-contender’s ballplayer, and the Jays have handed him hundreds of at bats.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• There was a time no ballplayer was permitted to leave his team even to witness the birth of his child.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
• Of course, the actual baseballs, bats, and ballplayers are part of the fireworks as well.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2018
• There was still a certain code of the road between ballplayers and the heathens that covered them.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 14 July 2019
• For a long time, predicting the success of a ballplayer was largely a matter of intuition and guesswork.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Just ask the Augustine brothers, a pair of ballplayers from Fort Collins who came out to multiple games this week for Blackmon’s last hurrah.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024