mine-run

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:47 PM -0500 2/13/02, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:
>Last Week - Justice R.B. Ginsburg , "so long as the rule, like the mine run
>of procedural rules, generally serves the state interest."
>
>4/19/01 Newsday, "Brian Daubach strokes a three-run homer during Boston's
>mine-run eighth inning."
>
>3/11/01 News & Record, "They do tend to make ordinary, mine-run politicians
>look a little dingy by comparison."
>
>07/18/94 American Lawyer Newspapers Group, "In the 'mine run' of cases it
>may not be so very difficult because more or less similar cases have blazed
>trails."
>
>Sometimes this seems to mean vast majority - others just run-of-the-mill
>ordinary - and the baseball one is, well - what exactly does this phrase
>mean, and where did it come from?

It comes from a misprint of "nine-run eighth inning".

larry