HOW TO PRONOUNCE
baseball
/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/
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What does baseball mean?
noun
- A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
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IPA pronunciation
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But on both the baseball and football squads were a few fellows not choice in their use of English.
Let me turn now to the first principle of all ball games, whether tennis, golf, cricket, baseball, polo, or football.
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But the more baseball I see the more it enchants me as a spectacle, and these early questionings are forgotten.
My cow has a swelling under her neck between her jaw bones about the size of a baseball and almost as hard.
Betsy and I walked as far as the baseball field in the course of the evening, and caught a glimpse of the orgies.