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

[Shapiro, Fred]

Quite right.  It is only a few hours ago that I realized that not all the items on "First Up" were by Mr. Liss.  I will try to notice the ones that were by Mr. Hershberger.

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Battery" (Baseball)

To give credit where credit is due... Even though this appears on Ken
Liss's "First Up" site (https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbaseballterms.kenliss.com%2Fbattery%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C942c1cce131049793b1308dd6a511e3c%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638783618832954895%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZYehkS%2B%2BP6v%2BEZRRMhXIDrfHsgJ8buyD8kgdKyIFuLA%3D&reserved=0<https://baseballterms.kenliss.com/battery/>), the
cite was found by Richard Hershberger. See:

https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprotoball.org%2F1864.58&data=05%7C02%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C942c1cce131049793b1308dd6a511e3c%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638783618832972618%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GV0G87XigWs4vEZGN7Wdbq5HEZzBhXjc6uTQniXJNtc%3D&reserved=0<https://protoball.org/1864.58>
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baseball-almanac.com%2Fdictionary-term.php%3Fterm%3Dbattery&data=05%7C02%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C942c1cce131049793b1308dd6a511e3c%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638783618832984330%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YGlR5FROPsS6w8y%2B%2FWdP0b7Qybepe3gHqsogvB6e%2Bao%3D&reserved=0<https://www.baseball-almanac.com/dictionary-term.php?term=battery>

--bgz

On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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