"Hit in the clutch" (1927)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:05:44 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:

>Checking _Sporting News_ (just got access to Paper of Record), I can
>push it back one more year...
>
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>1925 _Sporting News_ 14 May 3/1 Twice thereafter he delivered in the
>clutch and finally Speaker put him in right field, where he blazed for
>two months last summer before illness put him out of the game.
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Make that 1922! (Still getting the hang of searching on Paper of Record.)

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1922 _Sporting News_ 13 Apr. 5/5 McNally had been showing plenty in the
field and his bat is one of the most timely on the squad and he'd rather
miss his Sunday breakfast than lose the chance to hit in the clutch.
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--Ben Zimmer