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American baseball legend forced into error of judgement (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aberration

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'error of judgement' is the definition.
'aberration' can be an answer for 'error' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'of judgement' bit.

'american baseball legend forced into' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'baseball legend' becomes 'berra' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'forced' indicates an anagram.
'into' anagrammed gives 'tion'.
'a'+'berra'+'tion'='ABERRATION'

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(Other definitions for aberration that I've seen before include "irregularity" , "Unwelcome deviation from normal" , "moral lapse" , "mistake" , "Deviation from the accepted norm" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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