Antedating of "Spring Training"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Mar 15 02:34:08 UTC 2011


spring training (OED 1897)

1888 _Boston Daily Globe_ 26 Feb. 19 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  (heading) The big captain's system of spring training.  Some points for managers of base ball teams.


Fred Shapiro

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