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

[Ben Zimmer]

Current date to beat is 1887 (see other thread).

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https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107192966/double-header/
Detroit Free Press, Sep. 7, 1887, p. 2, col. 1 (heading)
A DOUBLE-HEADER. The Detroits and Chicagos to Play Two Games To-day.
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:23 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
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>
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> 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
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> 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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>

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