[Ads-l] Antedating of "Perfect Game"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Mar 25 13:08:04 UTC 2025


perfect game (OED 1907)

“Cy Young has twice pitched a perfect game.<https://www.newspapers.com/image/543760284/?terms=%22perfect%2Bgame%22%2Bward>” (Headline). The Brooklyn Citizen, May 9, 1904, p4

NOTE: This antedating was found by Ken Liss.

Fred Shapiro

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