money

adj. in baseball, capable of saving a game or season through heroic effort. Subjects: English, United States, Baseball, Sports & Recreation

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Citations: 1920 Dean Snyder Iowa City Daily Press (Iowa) (Sept. 27) “The Money Players! You Tell ‘Em” p. 11: A good ball player is one thing. A money player is something else. There are both money ball clubs and money ball players.…A star performer may carry a high batting average opposite his name. He may have but a few mistakes recorded in his fielding figures. His workmanship, both on the offense and defense, may be spectacular and brilliant, but if he cracks in the critical pinch plays he doesn’t qualify for a money ball player.…When a play comes up to them on which rests the outcome of a battle they’ll deliver the goods. If a hit is needed to score the winning run they’ll crack it out nine times out of ten. If a bit of super-fielding will save a game they rise to the occasion. 1935 Harry Grayson Zanesville Signal (Ohio) (Oct. 9) “By Harry Grayson” p. 10: Money ball players are so called because when there is something at stake, or when they are in a spot where, if they come through, their outfit prevails, and if they fail, their club loses, they usually deliver.…“When the line forms at the counting house, Goslin, Bridges and Cochrane will be at its head,” predicted close observers before the world series. Their uncanny knack of standing up in the clutches meant to their aggregation an individual difference of $2,449.15.

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