Article clipped from St Louis Sporting News

mANX phviitjon rqcI queer wordd linvo uropt Into tho haao ball onoyolopa-din during tho past '/cav yonra. Perhnp* tho • queerest wprd uaod U- Vuat oi “lain1' Svbon •Tttdt'.SulUvatv .oii'mo to St^tjoul^n 1S8JI id. iriuimu0 tho Itrownu ho uh'd Von lt;,\or Ahe bpiiruvJ a Hupply atoro »t tUo corner of. ftlxthand IMno wtroeto,,- Oqo day xvhlloi'Oomlflkoy aud T«d wdfH together two or three mem came Into the more, and ijcnmnonoed to talk baBo ball. After ilicy had bared Tod nonalttorflbly thoy loft, •AddrtiBiftng Coot* iBUoy Tod naked wluttnumoln tho dlorion. wy would rtt tho men that bod addressed him. OotnlaVoy nMd tho dictionary w«a unequal to tlila ooonslou. ‘‘Then,1’ oald Ted, “I will coin u nauuv ot my own;I prononnco thorn ‘Inna.1 ” From that for* ward men who In'kod Umbo halt iu the huso ball world nl louat have boon known only on “funs.”
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St Louis Sporting News

St Louis, Missouri, US

Sat, Feb 15, 1890

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