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Definition of Minor leaguer
1. Noun. A player on a minor-league baseball team.
Group relationships: Minor-league Club, Minor-league Team
Generic synonyms: Ballplayer, Baseball Player
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minor Leaguer
Literary usage of Minor leaguer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making of a Big Leaguer by Gilbert Patten, Burt L. Standish (1915)
"This was some minor leaguer, probably, who had been up against the powers of
organized baseball, possibly had been blacklisted. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Outlook 109:413-15 F 24 '15 Mysterious fate of the minor-leaguer. Lit Digest
51:267 Ag 7 '15 None but the Braves. G. Rice, il Collier's 55:9 Paper champions ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"A pitcher might have every known delivery, deception, speed, slow ball, curve,
fader, drop, everything, and still be hopelessly a "minor leaguer," if he did ..."
4. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... batting-average, double-header, grand-stand-play, Charley- horse, pennant-winner,
gate-money, busker, minor-leaguer, glass-arm, to strike out, to foul, ..."
5. Baseball Goes to War by William B. Mead (1998)
"That was it; Schreiber returned to his batting practice chores. Catcher Bill
Steinecke was not so lucky. A minor leaguer since ..."
6. How to Play Baseball: A Manual for Boys by John Joseph McGraw (1914)
"There are several things required of an advanced shortstop which would not be
necessary in a man unless he were a minor leaguer with Big League ambitions. ..."
7. At the Home Plate: By Albertus T. Dudley, Illustrated by Charles Copeland by Albertus True Dudley (1910)
"On the Fourth the lumber company sent a nine down into the town in the valley to
play a game. A discarded minor-leaguer who works in ..."
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