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The 19th-century baseball slang for being held scoreless originated when the Mutuals BBC traveled to Chicago and humiliated the White Stockings, 9-0, on July 23, 1870.

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Bogovich, Richard and Pestana, Mark, in Felber, Bill, Ed., Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (2013), pp. 74-76

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