The full nine yards (1907)

Fri Sep 6 21:15:48 UTC 2013

On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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

>>
>> Again via newspaperarchive.com. -- Bonnie
>>
>> 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]...

yes. great finds.

arnold

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