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Definition of Batboy
1. Noun. (context: baseball softball) A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in retrieving them during play. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Batboy
1. a boy who minds baseball equipment [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batboy
Literary usage of Batboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis (2007)
"Jackie's Bat by Marybeth Lorbiecki This is the fictionalized story of Jackie
Robinson's first season with the Dodgers as told by the team's batboy. ..."
2. Practical English Composition by Edwin Lillie Miller (1916)
"Connie Mack himself, or his crippled batboy, could have pitched the game and won
it from the second inning on. Joe just kept slamming them over and, ..."
3. Literature Pockets by Jill Norris (2001)
"... batboy.An Inside Look at Spring Training by Joan Anderson I See Rhythm by
Toyomi Igus Painters of the Caves by Patricia Lauber Special Effects in Film ..."
4. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"Face profiled at far left is unidentified From bottom left, batboy Bobby Scanlon,
holding worn piece of equipment; manager Luke Sewell; owner Don Barnes; ..."
5. More E. K. Means: Is this a Title? It is Not. It is the Name of a Writer of by Eldred Kurtz Means (1919)
"When Bush finally threw the ball it went over the plate ten feet in the air, and
a giggling batboy chased it until it struck against a stump on the edge of ..."
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