baseball vs league

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. 

league

noun
  • An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. 

  • A group or association of cooperating members. 

  • A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league. 

  • The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers). 

  • A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level. 

  • A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: 盟). 

  • An alliance or coalition. 

verb
  • To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. 

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