baseball vs ball-hawking

baseball is a noun but ball-hawking is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
baseball	Yes	No	No	No
ball-hawking	No	Yes	No	No

baseball (noun)	ball-hawking (noun)
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
a ball used in playing baseball

baseball (adjective)	ball-hawking (adjective)
	used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit