[Ads-l] Antedating of "Walk" (Baseball)

[Laurence Horn]

"base on balls" appears to be a bit later; not sure why the 1875 OED cite
is bracketed, though:

[1875    Inter Ocean (Chicago) 28 Aug. 3/5   An error of judgement by
Devlin, who gave Fisler his base on balls.]

Maybe the broader context casts doubt on its relevance. Otherwise, there's
an unbracketed cite from 1891, same year as the listed first cite for
"walk".

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:21 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> walk, n. (OED, 4.b., 1891)
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> 1866 New York Herald 28 Aug. in Edward J. Nichols An Historical Dictionary
> of Baseball Terminology 85 (1939)
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> Fred Shapiro
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