"Wait 'til next year!" (1938, at least, for Brooklyn Dodgers)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:33:21 -0400, bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> >http://www.barrypopik.com/article/980/wait-til-next-year-brooklyn-dodgers
> >...
> >Anybody got a "wait until next year," with/without the Brooklyn Dodgers?
> >I can't check the Sporting News on this computer.
>
> Washington Post, Sep 29, 1903, p. 8
> The Senators could do nothing in the next two innings.
> "Wait till next year."

Barry himself posted a citation ("Wait till next year") from Sporting
Life, 5 Nov. 1884, a few years ago.

Fred Shapiro


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