[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bad Hop"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Bad hop (OED 1909)

“Mathay’s triple in the first was the result of an accident rather than hard hitting. The ball took a bad hop just as it reached Rudolph and bounded over the German’s head.” The Zanesville Times Recorder, May 2, 1906, p8

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro


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