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Oops, He Missed It; Will He Be Called "Old Butter Fingers?"

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Text	Rose of Affection [New York and Philadelphia, Turner and Fisher], David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 199-200. This short chapbook shows a field with a one-handed bat, a trap, but also a pitched ball. "With a bound, see the ball go,/Now high in the air as hit it just so,/No catch is Jo.; oh, how he lingers,/He'll soon have the name of old butter fingers." Block notes that the term was used for clumsy persons as far back as 1615.
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