The full nine yards (1907)

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Wonderful citations!
Now you have given us a connection between baseball, nine-innings, and
nine yards. You are really giving us the whole nine yards, Bonnie.
Garson

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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