[Ads-l] Antedating of "Double Play" (Correction of Previous Email)

[Ben Zimmer]

According to Dickson's Baseball Dictionary, there's a use of "double play"
(discovered by Edward J. Nichols) in Chadwick Scrapbooks, 1858. Dickson
doesn't provide the citation, though.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ceeU7xSLw5kC&pg=PA268

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 9:01 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> double play (OED 1867)
>
> 1862 _Times Union_ (Brooklyn, N.Y.) 5 Aug. 2/5 (Newspapers.com)  Campbell
> ... made a double play.
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