Synonyms for major league
ma·jor league

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1. major leagueadjective

   Serious, intensive.

   The company made a major league effort to get the contract.

   Synonyms:
   big time, majors, big league

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1. major league, big league, majorsnoun

   the most important league in any sport (especially baseball)

   Synonyms:
   big league, majors

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1. • Baseball
   • League

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1. John Schilling:

   To engage an ICBM with THAAD would be like asking a high school baseball player to hit a fastball from a major-league pitcher - literally out of his league.

2. Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts:

   Words can not express how important Ernie Banks will always be to the Chicago Cubs, the city of Chicago and Major League Baseball, ernie Banks was a pioneer in the major leagues. And more importantly, Ernie Banks was the warmest and most sincere person I've ever known.

3. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

4. Major League Baseball:

   The minor league season was canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Teams provided players $ 400 per week for most or all of the season anyway, a sum that represented a raise for many lower-level minor leaguers. Major League Baseball plans to raise minor league salaries in 2021, pushing the minimum yearly salary for a full-season player at Class A from $ 5,800 to $ 10,000. The league is expected to shrink the minor leagues by as much as 25 % after failing to renew its agreement last month with the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. While Major League Baseball does not comment on ongoing litigation, MLB remains focused on modernizing Major League Baseball player development system to enhance the minor league experience for players, including providing them with renovated facilities, reduced travel, and improved daily working conditions.

5. Morgan Sword:

   We’re talking about but we have n’t made a firm decision yet of whether to modify the geometry of the Atlantic League strike zone a little bit, the zone that’s actually called by major league umpires is kind of like an oval. And going to a two-dimensional zone that has corners in it is going to be pitcher friendly because you’re adding space to the strike zone.