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Definition of Major-league club
1. Noun. A team that plays in a major league.
Generic synonyms: Squad, Team
Group relationships: Big League, Major League, Majors
Member holonyms: Big Leaguer, Major Leaguer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Major-league Club
Literary usage of Major-league club
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... in return for a player obtained in an hour of necessity, the minor league club
grants the major league club an option on its entire playing squad. ..."
2. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1915)
"1> 4 first Chinese to play with a major league club. Wa. Johnson repudiates
contract with Chicago Feds. See also Kansas City, Mo. ..."
3. Touching Second: The Science of Baseball by John J. Evers, Hugh S. Fullerton (1910)
"With the trainer, secretary, correspondents, wives of players, the training party
of a major league club frequently numbers fifty persons, and on his spring ..."
4. The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopedia and Atlas (1902)
"... League raid—Jo that It wae the means of developing many young playera who
otherwise would never have bad the opportunity to get Into major league club*. ..."
5. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"... night ball opponents among the major league club owners enacted a rule limiting
each team to seven home night games a season. ..."
6. Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson (1913)
"It was not idleness to own a major-league club. For the first time in their
intercourse he felt that he faced the dead king almost as an equal. ..."
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