major league
noun
1
: a league of highest classification in U.S. professional baseball
broadly
: a league of major importance in any of various sports
2
major leaguer
noun
Examples of major league in a Sentence
when you've landed a tenure-track position at that university, you're playing in the major leagues
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Here is a breakdown: Here for the fielding Mason McCoy had exclusively played shortstop in his 25 previous major league games.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
The Boston Red Sox tie a major league record by hitting four straight home runs in a 7-6 win over the New York Yankees.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Fulford and Veen became the second pair of teammates in franchise history to hit their first major league home run in the same game, joining Edgard Clemente and Curtis Leskanic on June 9, 1999, vs. Seattle.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2025
This draft allows teams with thinner major league rosters and farm systems to add talent from teams that can’t fit all of their big-leaguers and advanced prospects on a 40-man roster.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
The Boston Red Sox tie a major league record by hitting four straight home runs in a 7-6 win over the New York Yankees.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Fulford and Veen became the second pair of teammates in franchise history to hit their first major league home run in the same game, joining Edgard Clemente and Curtis Leskanic on June 9, 1999, vs. Seattle.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2025
This draft allows teams with thinner major league rosters and farm systems to add talent from teams that can’t fit all of their big-leaguers and advanced prospects on a 40-man roster.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for major league
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“Major league.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/major%20league. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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