[Ads-l] Antedating of "Knuckler"

[Shapiro, Fred]

knuckler (OED, 3., 1928)

‘Knuckler’ Moren”. (In list of players). The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 30, 1908.

“…. even such veterans as Manager Murray and Captain Gleason say that in all their long careers they have never seen anything like Richie’s sepentine [sic] twister and Moren’s ‘knuckler’.” The Altoona Times, March 31, 1908, p9

NOTE; This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro



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