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

[Shapiro, Fred]

cycle (OED, "Additional Sense," 1929)

“Veach, by getting 1 kind of each hit, is the first player in his league to hit for the cycle in his league this year ….<https://www.newspapers.com/image/60013465/?terms=%22hit%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bcycle%22%2Bsingle%2Bdouble%2Btriple%2B%22home%2Brun%22>” “Features of the Week on the Diamond,” Brookline Daily Eagle, September 26, 1920, p63

NOTE:  This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro



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