superplayer

noun

su·​per·​play·​er ˌsü-pər-ˈplā-ər 

plural superplayers

: an extremely or extraordinarily talented, skillful, or successful player

… the myth of [Mickey] Mantle as the superplayer really began the following spring, in 1951, when the Yankees brought him up to train with the big club.

—David Halberstam

a nuclear/financial superplayer

Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above