[Ads-l] Antedating of "Big Leaguer"

[Shapiro, Fred]

big leaguer (OED 1887)

“In the evening the excursionists visited the diamond field and criticized the game between the Lynchburgs and Norfolks, and told the boys who had never seen the big leaguers how games should be played.” Alexandria Gazette, June 29, 1886, p2

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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