The phrase "ballplayer of" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in written English.
It is unclear what you are trying to convey with this phrase. A more correct and commonly used phrase could be "professional baseball player" or "ballplayer." Example: Jake is a skilled ballplayer of the local Little League team. (Incorrect) Revised example: Jake is a talented young baseball player on the local Little League team. (Correct).
For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.
— August 22 , 1959From "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," a sports piece For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.
He wrote: "For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill".
— August 22 , 1959________ From "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," a sports piece For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.
In the best-selling book "Game of Shadows," Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams suggest that Bonds was stung by all the joyful attention showered upon Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa during the record-chasing summer of 1998, and set about rededicating himself, in his mid-thirties, to the task of being properly recognized for what he already was: the best ballplayer of his era.
However, the enormous contract does not make him the highest paid ballplayer of all time.
Both at the N.B.A. game and at the Clemson-South Carolina football game, the impression on TV was mostly of big black ballplayers out of control.
One of the greatest ballplayers of all time, and all she associated him with was a coffee maker.
(But if it's any consolation to them, Mr. Ritter's interviewees regarded the ballplayers of the 1960's as pampered crybabies, too).
"The joke was, 'If you don't start hitting, you'll be doing this.' " One aspect of the fascination with Jewish ballplayers — of whom there have never been many — is whether one's mother is Jewish.
In their classic home whites, with the Olde English "D" on the front, these modern Tigers have the look of the old-time ballplayers of our dreams — big, beefy guys with little-boy grins.
