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

[Shapiro, Fred]

battery (OED, 4.c., 1867)

“As regards the pitching, ‘Walker’s battery’ proved to be very effective in aiding to achieve the result…”  New York Sunday Mercury, July 10, 1864

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro


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