Flamboyant player tossed caber into position (8)
I believe the answer is:
liberace
'flamboyant player' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'tossed caber into position' is the wordplay.
'tossed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'position' becomes 'lie' (lie can mean to place or position).
'caber' anagrammed gives 'berac'.
'berac' inserted into 'lie' is 'LIBERACE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for liberace that I've seen before include "Twentieth century American piano-playing entertainer" , "Be a relic (anag) - pianist" , "Flamboyant twentieth century US pianist" , "US pianist entertainer" , "Flamboyant American pianist" .)