[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sox"

[Peter Reitan]

"The Eckfords will play the Red Sox on Monday."

News of Cincinnati as reported in the Pittsburgh Daily Post, August 16, 1869, page 1.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113523312/pittsburgh-daily-post/

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