Jinx (1907, 1909, 1910)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Jan 24 03:23:46 UTC 2004


At 7:52 PM -0500 1/23/04, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>
>_Wichita Daily Times_ (Wichita Falls TX), 16 March 1910: p. 6, col. 3:
>
><<The Cincinnati Red Sox will play a series of thirteen games before the
>season opens. The thirteen stunts is a fine, fat way to clap the jinks on
>yourself before the big gong is hit.>>
>
>----------
>
>-- Doug Wilson

the Cincinnati Red Sox?  (I know the Reds went back to being the
Redlegs for a while during the height of the McCarthy era, but were
they ever the Red Sox?  Or is this just a typo?  Maybe someone had
just hit the big gong a bit too hard.)

larry



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