[Ads-l] Antedating of "Double-Header"

[Bill Mullins]

> double-header (OED, 3., 1896)
>
> 1893 _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ 7 Aug. 8/2 (Newspapers.com)  The Browns and St. Louis

> played a double-header in the presence of the biggest croowd that ever gathered in

> the Cincinnati grounds.
>
> Fred Shapiro



1892 The Sporting Life May 7  14/5

To-day there was a double-header, but under protest from Brooklyn.

https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/53697/rec/1



1892 The Sporting Life Oct. 1   2/2

Another proposed change is the discontinuance of 'double headers,' that is,

playing a regular [text missing]

https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll17/id/49152/rec/2


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