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From: poppers@aecom.UUCP (Michael Poppers)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Baseball Retronym
Message-ID: <1458@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 12:57:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 12:57:30 1985
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	Before (by the good graces of L. MacPhail and others) night baseball
came into existence, the "daylight play" represented picking a runner off
when there was daylight between him and the base (bag, for all baseball
fans).  Nowadays...well, just call it the "'Gotcha!" from now on.


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