jassak and baseball slang

[Mullins, Bill]

jassak
"The Council of War," _Baseball Magazine_, October, 1916, No. 6, p. 25
"There, there! Cut it out! Some of you split them two jassaks out before
they kill each other."

"The New Signals," _Baseball Magazine_, October, 1918, No. 6, p. 492
"But Wharke here has ears like a jassack, and they could be seen a mile
away-"

Perhaps a corruption of Jackass???

doghouse (fiddle) (a double bass -- OED has 1923.
"The Council of War," _Baseball Magazine_, October, 1916, No. 6, p. 26
"Fiddle means to steal a base. Big doghouse fiddle means to work the double
steal."

The same article has "musketeer" for "mosquito", on the next page.

roll your own (OED has "rolls its own" 1930)
Bull Durham tobacco advertisement, _Baseball Magazine_, Aug 1916, p. ??
(probably back cover)
"It takes only a little practice to learn to "roll your own" with "Bull
Durham."

knuckler (OED has 1928)
classified advertisement, _Baseball Magazine_, Aug 1916, p. 4/2.
"PITCH THE FADEAWAY, SPITTER, KNUCKLER, SMOKE BALL, etc." [note smoke ball
is not in OED]

jock (abbrev for jock-strap (supportive garment)) (OED has 1952)
classified advertisement, _Baseball Magazine_, Aug 1916, p. 120/1
"Ask your dealer, and if he will not supply you with Mizpah Jock No. 44,
send us 75¢."

fan club (OED has 1941)
"The 'R-U-A-Fan' Club," Brother Max, _Baseball Magazine_, December, 1908,
No. 2, p. 51
""But what good does it do a fellow to join the Fan Club?" I hear Bob over
there in the corner ask."

gink (OED has 1910)
"Bugs," Louis Schneider, _Baseball Magazine_, Dec 1908, p. 62
"He'll ramp and stamp and whoop and yell; he'll tear his lungs plumb out;
He'll dislocate his voice to boot, but still the gink'll shout;
He's game to stay and cheer you on for fifteen innings through,
But if you go and lose the game he's got it in for you!"

twirl, twirler (pitch, pitcher -- this sense not in OED)
"The 'R-U-A-Fan' Club," Brother Max, _Baseball Magazine_, May 1909, No. 1,
p. 69
"Lyle manages to get off work on Saturday afternoons, and then he twirls for
the champion boys' team of the town. We have his record, and it's a good
one. "I love to pitch, and my greatest ambition is to
be a famous twirler," he says. You have the right idea, Lyle."

onion (slang for baseball -- not in OED)
"Cutting the Corners" W. R. Hoefer, _Baseball Magazine_, July 1918, p. 287/1
"When they ain't pasting the onion they're in a slump."

"Cutting the Corners" W. R. Hoefer, _Baseball Magazine_, July 1918, p. 287/2
"PICKLE the Pill: To soak, paste, biff, bang, kiss, wallop or sting the
onion, apple, pill, or ball upon the snoot, seam, kisser, nose or stitch."

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