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|Name=Firsst Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Homer Run
|Name=First Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run
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|Date=1868/10/31
|Date=1868/08/06
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|Country=United States
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|State=NY
|State=NY
|City=Bronx
|City=New York
|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;">[English cricketers vs. Union of Morrisania 10/20/1868] "In the fourth innings the cricketers made five runs on good hits, Willisher hitting clean for a "'homer.'" </span></p>
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<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;">Note: previously, the earliest usage was believed to be in 1875, per Dickson.<br /></span></p>
|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>
|Sources=<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">New York Clipper October 31, 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;">[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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|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Submitted by=John Thorn
|Submission Note=19CBB Posting, 2/14/2014
|Submission Note=email to Skip McAfee, 11/17/2008
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Two recent finds on the earliest known usage of "homer:"

[A] "The second inning saw a change as the Champions went out for two runs, one of these a 'homer.'"

[B] In an account of English cricketers vs. Union of Morrisania 10/20/1868:

"In the fourth innings the cricketers made five runs on good hits, Willisher hitting clean for a "'homer.'"

Note: previously, the earliest usage was believed to be in 1875, per Dickson's The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (3rd Edition, 2009), page 419..

Sources

[A] New England Base Ballist, August 6, 1868.

[B] New York Clipper October 31, 1868.  (Posted to 19CBB on 2/14/2014 by Richard Hershberger.)

Submitted by John Thorn
Submission Note email to Skip McAfee, 11/17/2008


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