“‘Banks hit a homer off me in the Coliseum,’ he [Larry Sherry] recalled. ‘He’s one of the best ‘mistake’ hitters I’ve seen. You can’t make a mistake against him.” “Podres Could Clinch at Least Pennant Tie,” Mirror News (Los Angeles), September 26, 1959, p5
No earliest use given in 2009 Dickson Baseball Dictionary
