[Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckle Ball"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent work, Fred and Bill. Here is a citation for "knuckle ball" a
couple years earlier found in GenealogyBank.

Date: April 30, 1905
Newspaper: The Cairo Bulletin
Newspaper Location: Cairo, Illinois
Article: Reinforced The Globes Return
Quote Page 6, Column 3
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
"Witt, the wonderful tonsorial artist and more wonderful pitcher of
the "knuckle ball," an innovation in the delivery line entirely his
own, will daze and dazzle the Globes the first half of today's game
...
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:35 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > knuckle ball (OED 1927)
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> > 1907 _Marion_ (Ohio) _Daily Mirror_ 11 May 15/2 (Newspapers.com)
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> > The knuckle ball had the Giants completely baffled.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> Slightly earlier:
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> 1907  Racine WI Journal Times Apr 30 7/1 [newspapers.com]
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> Moren, a young pitcher with Philadelphia, has invented a drop curve called the knuckle ball and makes it work very prettily.
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