0 the top level of a particular sport, business, or activity in which there is the greatest competition and the greatest opportunity for success:
1 infml the top level of a particular sport, business, or activity:
The first 10 selections went on to play in the big leagues.
Not just to get to the big leagues or be a first-round draft choice.
Wakefield went 1-for-7 in a brief stint in the big leagues.
Lamb made it to the big leagues at the end of 1920.
Greene started only 19 games in the big leagues from the 1994 season until he left the game in 1997.
Alvarez had control problems in the minors, and it carried over to the big leagues.
Maier played only one season in the big leagues, but he spent that season on a championship team.
Foster's sophomore season in the big leagues was one of his best, in which he pitched in 32 games, while starting in 27 of them.
