[Ads-l] Antedating of "Right Field"

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

Edward J. Nichols, An Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology 62 (1939) has this citation:  1854 Rules of the Original Knickerbocker Club, p. 100.

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