Golden Sombrero (baseball slang)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 7/23/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Dickson's got it from 1989 (Don Baylor), but Factiva and
> Newspaperarchive push it back to 1987 (Pete Rose).
>
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> Associated Press, June 16, 1984
> "We had two guys who got the 'Golden Sombrero' tonight. You know what
> the Golden Sombrero is don't you? It's the hat trick plus one. Our No.
> 1 and No. 8 hitters struck out four times each." -- Cincinnati Manager
> Pete Rose. Houston's Mike Scott struck out 14 Reds, leading Houston to
> a 4-0 victory Monday.
> -----

That should read June 16, 1987, of course. Here's the box score for
the game in question:

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B06150HOU1987.htm


--Ben Zimmer

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