Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The field position between second and third base.
- noun The infielder who occupies this position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A player in the game of base-ball who is stationed between second and third base; also, the position filled by that player. See
base-ball . Also calledshort .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Baseball) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun baseball The
infield defensiveplayer that stands between thesecond baseman and thethird baseman . - noun figuratively A nimble defender.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer
- noun the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- noun (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position
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Examples
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This tells you how bad Minnesota's power production has been, their shortstop is their leading power source.
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Assuming they elect to retain shortstop Jose Reyes (who has an $11 million club option for 2011) and offer arbitration to outfielder Angel Pagan and pitchers R.A. Dickey and Mike Pelfrey, the Mets already will have more than $120 million committed to their payroll.
It's All Over But The Reckoning Mike Sielski 2010
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Jeremy Beckham was the Griffin shortstop and also could be a late-round pick in this year's draft as a second baseman out of Georgia Southern University.
Georgia becomes prime ground for major league prospects 2008
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The switch-hitting shortstop is supposed to return to Philadelphia on Saturday, though it's uncertain whether he'll be in the lineup.
USATODAY.com 2007
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In fact, 2002 first-rounder Khalil Greene at shortstop is about it.
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With a 400mm, shoot the shortstop from the 1st base line.
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With a 400mm, shoot the shortstop from the 1st base line.
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In other words, if the shortstop is good enough, nobody makes it to 1st base.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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In other words, if the shortstop is good enough, nobody makes it to 1st base.
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The shortstop is located between 2nd and 3rd base.
treeseed commented on the word shortstop
My first baseball card of note was from a Topps pack in 1959 and it was of a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates named Dick Groat. See Free Associate
February 4, 2008