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

[Shapiro, Fred]

changeup (OED, 2., 1942)

“The old Maine Moose Hunter [Clarence Blethen] was mixing them up, pulling the string now and then for a perfect change-up and then blowing that old fast one and curve right in there to catch the Crackers flat.” Jimmy Jones, The Atlanta Constitution, April 27, 1934, p23

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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