Antedating of "Double Header" (Baseball)

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Mar 21 11:13:00 UTC 2014


double header (OED, c., 1896)

1888 _Boston Daily Globe_ 31 May 5 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  (heading) Boston Has a Double Header. Indians Prove Easy Victims.

Fred Shapiro

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