[Ads-l] Antedating of "Home Team"

[Shapiro, Fred]

home team (OED 1916)

“The St. Louis and Hartford clubs play their second game at the Grand Avenue park to-day, and a close contest is anticipated. Betting favors the home team.” “Ball and Bat<https://www.newspapers.com/image/571018903>,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 25, 1875, p8

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro


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