Antedating of "Right Fielder"

[Sam Clements]

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From: "Fred Shapiro" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: Antedating of "Right Fielder"


> right fielder (OED 1867)
>
> 1865 _N.Y. Times_ 24 Aug. 8 (ProQuest)  The Atlantics, however, were minus
> the services of PEARCE, PRATT and SID. SMITH, their catcher, pitcher and
> right fielder, two of them being sick and the others in Philadelphia.
>
> Fred Shapiro


No doubt some comic the next day came up with "On the whole, I'd rather be
sick"

Sam Clements