Edit Other First: First Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run

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Description:	<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Two recent finds on the earliest known usage of "homer:"<br /></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[A] "The second inning saw a change as the Champions&nbsp;went out for two runs, one of these a 'homer.'"<br /></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[B] In an account of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">English cricketers vs. Union of Morrisania 10/20/1868:</span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">"In the fourth innings the cricketers made five runs on good hits, Willisher hitting clean for a "'homer.'" </span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><strong>Note</strong>: previously, the earliest usage was believed to be in 1875, per Dickson's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (</span>3rd Edition, 2009), page 419..<br /></span></p>
Sources:	<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">[A] <em>New England Base Ballist,</em> August 6, 1868.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">[B] <em>New York Clipper</em> October 31, 1868</span>.&nbsp; (Posted to 19CBB on 2/14/2014 by Richard Hershberger.)</p>
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