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Baseball player's pants and shirt? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shortstop

'baseball player's' is the definition.
(shortstop is a kind of baseball player)

'pants and shirt?' is the wordplay.
'pants' becomes 'shorts' (shorts is a kind of pants).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shirt?' becomes 'top'.
'shorts'+'top'='SHORTSTOP'

(Other definitions for shortstop that I've seen before include "Opening move" , "Fielding position (baseball)" , "Fielder in baseball" , "US player" , "One in field" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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