[Ads-l] "Complete Game" Not in OED

[Shapiro, Fred]

complete game (not in OED)

“John Fee pitched his first complete game against the Philadelphia club yesterday and though his team lost, 7 to 4, it was through wretched fielding.” “Lost His First Game,” Carbondale (PA) Leader, October 2, 1889, p4

NOTE: This citation was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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