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Synonyms for big-league

being among the leaders in one's field

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But, eerily enough, he has homered on June 19 in three of his four major-league seasons, including in his big-league plate appearance on June 19, 2016.
At Gordon's invitation, Averill attended a tryout after finishing his college career and made his big-league debut with Cleveland in 1956.
The national pastime did not include African Americans on big-league rosters nor were there African Americans in any of the spring training camps.
It would have had to be a private conversation with another big-league ballplayer.
DETROIT--Detroit's dream of becoming a big-league ballet town appeared to collapse last spring when Metropolitan Ballet Theatre (MBT), the city's first professional ballet company, closed down halfway through its ambitious premiere season.
PCL ball has a different character, filled with the drama of careers moving toward still-unwritten endings, with no promises of big-league rewards.
After losing seasons last year, 17 big-league baseball and football team fired their managers.
They selected a pair of players with big-league bloodlines Wednesday.
Angels 4, Royals 2: Worcester's Tim Collins may be a bit in awe of his new major league surroundings, but the Royals' left-hander handled his big-league debut like a veteran yesterday in Kansas City.
For Clemens, that's mostly meant the Boston Red Sox, where he spent the first 13 years of his big-league career, and the Yankees, where he's been for the past 4 1/2 years.
Great if you want to throw out your bulky paper agenda and get into the handheld world on the cheap (compare to big-league devices at $300 to $500).
She's youngish (forty-three), boasts impressive past-performance lines of big-league shows (Calder, Oldenburg, and de Kooning) and accessible art-historical texts ("revising author" for the latest edition of H.H.
The site will provide big-league convenience with 1.6 million rifles, says marketing officer Michael Hoynes.
BOB UECKER, baseball wit, on the most comforting thought of a big-league manager: "Knowing that you have the same average job-survival rate as the migrant fruit picker - two and a half years."