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outfielder

[ out-feel-der ]

noun

, Sports.
  1. one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of outfielder1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; outfield + -er 1

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Example Sentences

Several years before Lou contracted ALS, Bruce Campbell, a Cleveland outfielder, came down with spinal meningitis.

I told Seiler that I certainly did remember Edo Vanni, an outfielder who passed through briefly as a Baron.

The St. Louis Browns employed one-armed Pete Gray in 1945 as an outfielder.

The throw by Yankee outfielder Shane Spencer went literally berserk.

The first notorious case, in 2002, was when Mets outfielder Richard Hidalgo was shot in the arm during a carjacking in Venezuela.

Even Nelson, although regarding him valuable as an outfielder on the nine, had seemed to hold him at a distance.

The first few he made easy for the outfielder, and then he hit balls harder and off to the right or left.

The ball had gone high rather than far, which gave the outfielder a good chance to get it home in time to nail the runner.

He was a fairly good outfielder, but excelled either as a catcher or baseman.

Ken Ward saw with despairing admiration what it meant to be a great outfielder.

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