Another Early S.F. Baseball Usage of "Jazz"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Here is another early San Francisco baseball usage of "jazz," although it sheds no new etymological light:


1914 _S. F. Chronicle_ 7 Mar. 4 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  The Yannigans are to oppose the Solari's Boyes Spring Jazz boys Sunday at Parramore Park, and they showed today that they didn't hold this fast bush organization too lightly, for they worked hard for Foreman Fanning, and put in extra time in the field.


Fred Shapiro
Editor
Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)

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