“Snodgrass hit a swinging bunt down third-base line and beat it out, then stole.” The Dallas Morning News, March 15, 1908, p26
Previous earliest use (Dickson Baseball Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2009):
1ST USE. 1933. “Beyers dribbled a swinging bunt toward first base on a hit-and-run play” (Sheboygan [Wisc.] Press, June 19; Peter Morris).
