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|Name=Firsst Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run | |Name=Firsst Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run | ||
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|Date=1868/08/06 | |Date=1868/08/06 | ||
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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> | |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 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;">[A] "The second inning saw a change as the Champions went out for two runs, one of these a 'homer.'"<br /></span></p> | ||
Revision as of 08:06, 3 June 2014
| Date | Thursday, August 6, 1868 |
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| Location | NY, NY, US |
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| Description | 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.) |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| Has Source On Hand | No |
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| Query | |
| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | email to Skip McAfee, 11/17/2008 |
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