hacker

[Joel S. Berson]

Get your chronology straight, Victor.  You doubted the possibility of
"hack" in basketball before 1970 today (Thursday) at 12:11 AM EDT.  I
wrote with the 1970 basketball definition of "hack"  today at 7:47 AM
EDT.  You "retracted" -- if that's what you want to call your
reference to Garson's earlier finding (1933)* -- today at 2:57 PM
EDT.  There is no other message from you between these times.

In my comment below, I was merely reminding you that my message was
in reply to your doubt about the use of "hack" in basketball before
1970.  I did not ever imply anything about the 1948 game
description's use of "Hacker", or about how much earlier than 1970
one could find "hacking" in basketball (I said that I had made only a
quick search).

* = "although Garson has already tracked "hack" a bit further
back".  [1933 strikes me as more than "a bit further back" from 1970.]

Joel

At 7/29/2010 03:34 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>  Thanks for pointing out this claim after I had already retracted it.
>
>     VS-)
>
>On 7/29/2010 3:19 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>At 7/29/2010 02:57 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>Your definition entry is supposedly from 1970--the
>>>game is from 1958.
>>Victor, your supposition was
>>>For my part, I doubt that this use of the verb
>>>"hack" has been around before the 1970s, but there is nothing scientific
>>>about this claim.
>>
>>Joel
>>
>
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