[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bush League"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Dec 29 20:05:01 UTC 2022
bush league (OED 1906)
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“The baseball public has been very kind to me. But I could not get my price here, and, as I could not go to any club playing under the national agreement, I must go into a ‘bush’ league.” Ted Breitenstein, quoted in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, January 13, 1896, p9
“The Southern Illinois league consists of Belleville, Cairo, East St. Louis, Springfield, Edwardsville, Chester and Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis. It is a ‘bush’ league, outside the pale of the national agreement.” Rockford Daily Register-Gazette, January 15, 1896, p7
Fred Shapiro
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