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

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Aug 9 18:30:40 UTC 2022


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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