[Ads-l] Antedating of "Strikeout" (Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

strike-out, n. (OED 1911)

1862 New York Sunday Mercury​ 29 June in Edward J. Nichols An Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology​ 75 (1939)

Fred Shapiro

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