[Ads-l] Antedating of "Slugger" (Baseball)

[Shapiro, Fred]

slugger (baseball) (OED 1883)

1870 World (N.Y.) 28 Sept. 2/1 (Genealogy Bank)

Meyerle, the great "slugger," hit a sharp grounder to Swandell.

Fred Shapiro

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