[Ads-l] Antedating of "Left Field"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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left field (OED 1857)

1854 _Rules of the Original Knickerbocker Club_ in Edward J. Nichols _An Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology_ (1939) 42

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