Antedating of "Second Guesser"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 15 03:08:51 UTC 2006


On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> second guesser (OED 1937)
>
> 1913 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 9 Oct. 23 (ProQuest)  (heading) Chance for
> "second guessers."

A fuller quotation follows within the _Tribune_ article:

It will always be laid up against Manager Mack that he did not use a pinch
hitter in that emergency or at least try the squeeze play, in which the
Athletics are proficient, but this criticism will come from the flock of
second guessers who infest baseball.

Fred Shapiro


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