Ballplayers

Ballplayers BALLPLAYERS To the average baseball fan there are many different types of players. There are pitchers, catchers, infielders, and outfielders; there are home run hitters, contact hitters, and speedsters; but to someone who really loves and appreciates the game there are really only two kinds of baseball players, those who are ballplayers and those who are not. The tenth edition of the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines ballplayer as a noun that means a person who plays ball; especially a baseball player. Under this definition everyone who played the game would be a ballplayer, but this is very far from the truth. What separates the ones who are ballplayers from those who are not' Skill and ability have little to do with it. A player does not have to be successful to be a ballplayer either. Being a ballplayer does not take a high batting average, a low ERA, a World Series Championship, or a multi-million dollar sports contract. A ballplayer's name is not necessarily known outside of the game's inner circle or his team's hometown. So what is a ballplayer' A ballplayer can be described in many ways. At the least he is an overachiever who makes the most out of game, ballplayers, baseball, ballplayer, player, players, team, world, play, teams, out, find, uniform, under, types, took, times, time, three, team's, special, run, really, probably, position, played, person, one, name, makes, low, love, look, home, hitters, himself, heart, greatest, great, good, finding, field, ever, early, countless, contract, coaches, championship, breed, average, always