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

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bat (OED, n2, 3.d., 1856)

1848 By-laws and Rules of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club 11

The ball must be pitched and not thrown for the bat.

Fred Shapiro

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