[Ads-l] Antedating of "Double-Header"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 7 21:00:12 UTC 2022


double-header (OED, 3., 1896)

1893 _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ 7 Aug. 8/2 (Newspapers.com)  The Browns and St. Louis played a double-header in the presence of the biggest croowd that ever gathered in the Cincinnati grounds.

Fred Shapiro

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