A Whole New Ball Game (1961)

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   "A whole new ball game," surprisingly, isn't in SPORTING NEWS before the 1970s.  It was first in the WALL STREET JOURNAL?
   I didn't find a good "whole 'nuther ball game," either.


Tunisian Tumult
BY DAN CORDTZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wall Street Journal (1889-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 24, 1961. p. 1 (2 pages):
(First page of two--ed)
   And, perhaps most serious of all in the long run, "a whole new ball game in Algeria," as one observer here puts it, referring to the disturbing effect the new trouble is likely to have on peace talks now going on between France and the Algerian rebels in an effort to end their seven-year war.

Republican Race
ALAN L. OTTEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Wall Street Journal (1889-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jan 7, 1964. p. 1 (2 pages) :
(Pg. 14--ed.)
   "This is truly wide open," asserts a California Republican leader.  "It's a whole new ball game."

Wood, Field and Stream
By OSCAR GODBOUT. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jan 14, 1964. p. 28 (1 page):
   The first fish in constitutes a record and it's a whole new ball game.