Hank Aaron

Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back, and - not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys - they didn't play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

American Baseball Player

Earl Weaver

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

American Coach

Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Joe DiMaggio

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

Barry Zito

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

American Athlete

D. B. Sweeney

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

American Actor

Andy Warhol

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

American Artist

Dwight Gooden

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Honus Wagner

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Joe Burrow

I'm a ballplayer. Whoever picks me, I'm going to show up.

American Football Player

The term 'ballplayer' often refers to baseball or softball players rather than any ball sport athletes.

Sports Specific

'Ballplayer' is commonly used in American English, synonymous with baseball players.

American Preference

The word 'ballplayer' is informal and typically used in casual conversations or sports commentary.

Informal Usage

 ballplayers sitting on our specially rigged merry-go-round are about to demonstrate a rather astonishing optical illusion here's the game right you're gonna throw the ball straight through what's your name Victor right but this time I'm gonna complicate things slightly I'm gonna rotate to the merry-go-round counterclockwise so you

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 That means that ballplayer batted safely, hit safely three times out of 10 at bats. That means hit the ball into the outfield, it dropped, it didn't get caught, and whoever tried to throw it to first base didn't get there in time and the runner was safe.

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