coincidental or not (?) "Too much Malarkey" 1904

[Paul Johnston]

Other way around.  The Minneapolis team was traditionally known as the Millers right back to the old Western League (a forerunner of today's AL, by the way, although Minneapolis stayed in the minors until the Washington Senators moved there and became the Twins.)

Paul Johnston
On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

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> I would assume that The Millers was the nickname of the Columbus team.
> They "broke ground" by pounding hits off the Minneapolis pitching.
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> On 1/8/2012 4:40 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Stephen Goranson<goranson at duke.edu>  wrote:
>>> "… the millers began to _break ground_ …"
>> What does this mean, in this context?
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>> -Wilson
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