Whether or not baseball has become a dead game is not really the issue.

Charlie de Clare looked at the dead game with an odd expression.

And the best dogs are said to be "dead game," meaning that no matter their injuries, they will fight on until death.

The only exception to this rule is where dead game may be used in the conduct of a water test at a field trial.

What you don't want are three dead games.

Ferguson acquired a good reputation in painting dead game and still life.

But he was dead game in the stretch, and showed he's got a lot of heart.

Buck and Acayib both looked terrified, but they were dead game.

The bearers carried him like dead game back to the beach of the lagoon.