Progress (of sorts) on hot dogs

[Laurence Horn]

 From today's Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/sports/baseball/13hotdogs.html

Hot dogs and baseball have a long history, though the details of
their relationship are as murky as the hot water that dirty dogs are
cooked in. Harry M. Stevens, a vendor at the old Polo Grounds in New
York, is widely credited with marrying the dog, the bun and baseball
when, in 1901, he started serving "dachshund sausages" on rolls.

Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, a cartoonist, was supposedly at the game and
could not spell dachshund, so instead wrote "hot dog." Researchers
later found that Dorgan was not at the Polo Grounds in 1901, and
discovered references in The Yale Record from 1895 to students who
"contentedly munched on hot dogs."


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I seem to recall "researchers" have pushed the date back farther.

LH

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