Handle a Pitcher (1892)

“Catcher McInerny handles Pitcher Lyons’s rifle shots wonderfully. They know each other to perfection.” Buffalo Courier, April 25, 1892, p8

Previous earliest use (Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2009):
1ST USE. 1894 (Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide; Edward J. Nichols). 

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