[Ads-l] Antedating of "Comeback"

[George Thompson]

How about "comebacker", a ball hit directly back to the pitcher?

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On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 4:32 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> comeback (OED, 5. [return to a previous state of success], 1908)
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> Nichols, Historical Dictionary of Baseball Terminology, has a citation for
> this term from Sporting Life, Sept. 9, 1905, p. 19.
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> 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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