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 relating or belonging to the highest level or most successful level of a particular sport, business, or activity: --
2 the most important or successful people, companies, etc. in a particular business or area of activity: --
It would be the most extensive big-league action of his career.
His big-league career was over with a total record of 11-16, 5.57.
All but one of his 33 big-league appearances came in relief.
They were the only team in the 12 team league that was not affiliated with just one big-league club.
His big-league career with seven teams ended in 1983.
He burst onto the major league scene in 1984, homering in his first two big-league games and collecting three doubles in his third.
Ultimately, it was a scoreless debut, and he went onto pitch four more big-league games that season.
A public-relations blitz promotes the boy as baseball's next great star, even though he has yet to throw a pitch in a big-league game.
