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2. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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   At the highest level; used as a noun ("You're in the big leagues now") or an adjective ("big-league lawyer"). OED cites "big league" as specifically American Major League Baseball, and cites its first use in 1899; the non-baseball use appears in 1947. [11] Synonym: major league. Contrast bush league, below.

3. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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   "AA" is also the abbreviation for the American Association, which has been the name of numerous professional baseball leagues: a short-lived major league of the 19th century, a minor league for much of the 20th century, and an independent minor league that became a "Partner League" of Major League Baseball in 2021.

4. Rickey Henderson - Wikipedia

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   Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson (December 25, 1958 – December 20, 2024), nicknamed "Man of Steal", was an American professional baseball left fielder who played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate tenures with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

5. A's leave Oakland a winner. They also leave plenty of tears ...

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   “Thank you all for loving the game of baseball. Thank you for your lifelong support of the Oakland A’s. ... The sellout crowd, the Athletics' first since the 2019 wild-card game, arrived to ...

6. Letters to Sports: Toasting the Dodgers' World Series title - AOL

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   Thank you, Yankees, for the gift that keeps on giving. You will be receiving a thank you from Dodger heaven from Tommy Lasorda, Vin Scully and Fernando Valenzuela for the generous gift you gave us ...

7. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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   An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).