The full nine yards (1907)

[Jonathan Lighter]

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JL


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at gmail.com
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> Again via newspaperarchive.com. -- Bonnie
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> This afternoon at 2:30 will be called one of the baseball games that
> will be worth going a long way to see.  The regular nine is going to
> play the business men as many innings as they can, but we can not
> promise the full nine yards.  [From "Baseball," The Mitchell
> Commercial (Lawrence County, Indiana), 2 May 1907, p. 2]
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