"drop" in sports: lose (1884), defeat (1920)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Jonathan Lighter opines:
   >>>>>

If baseball was known to the Huns, it would probably be the final nail in
Abner Doubleday's supporters' coffins.
 <<<<<

No chance. Not even a wooden stake through the heart and stuffing the mouth
with garlic. The popular myth is The Undead That Will Not Die.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]