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Article: WACKY QUESTIONS.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1997
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What is an inning, and how did that term come to describe a portion of a baseball game? - Charles Marksberry, Denver
The term comes from the 18th century English cricket word innings (always spelled with a final s but considered singular), which originally mean a portion of a game during which a player or side is ``in,'' says Stuart Berg Flexner in Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from our Lively and Splendid Past. A baseball ining was originally called a ``round'' until the early 1900s, says Flexner.
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