[Ads-l] Antedating of "Comeback"

[Bill Mullins]

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



p. 19, col. 3

"A cheering feature was the fact that Roy Patterson did his regular come-back

specialty, and is now once more the cool and shifty pitcher of years ago."

https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/37300/rec/36


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