ball game vs baseball

ball game

noun
  • A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game. 

  • A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over. 

  • Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic. 

  • Any game played with a ball. 

  • A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame. 

baseball

noun
  • A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins. 

  • The ball used to play the sport of baseball. 

  • A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance. 

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