[Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Plate"

[George Thompson]

I have heard "walk-off" attributed to Sparky Lyle, a "closer" active in the
1970s -- and before and after -- and a noted phrase-maker.  After the pitch
has been made, as the winning run is scoring, all the pitcher can do is
walk off the mound.

GAT

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 11:05 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Not just a hit. There are walk-off walks, walk-off hit batsmen, walk-off
> wild pitches or passed balls (I remember one of the former from a playoff
> game, although before the term "walk-off" would have been used, but here's
> one from last week:
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1555283169582235648__;!!BhJSzQqDqA!Tb7rJU2tFE1Zq22sxE2mVnIgO-rLZOQPdahyxoKKU43qzAZnvTgw_fEi2m_D3oOcGO_LATfwCbJGFBQlJoRPDQ$
> ), walk-off
> errors, walk-off balks, and in principle (although I can't recall any)
> walk-off catcher's interference.  I saw a walk-off steal of home by Junior
> Gilliam of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field once--again, before the
> term was extant.  Yes, it was a while back.
>
> LH
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 9:36 PM Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't remember the term "walk off" for a hit in the last inning that
> > wins a game until recent years.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work
> > SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com
> >
> >
> >
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> > Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Sent: Monday, August 8, 2022 12:06 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Antedating of "Home Plate"
> >
> > home plate (OED 1869)
> >
> > 1867 _Philadelphia Inquirer_ 29 Aug. 8/4 (Newspapers.com)  Hunt captured
> > at home plate by McBride.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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