“Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second.”

— Damon Runyon

New York American (July 16, 1911); reproduced in The Greater New York Sports Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=A2UaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=%22first+statement+means+the+same+as+the+second%22+runyon&source=bl&ots=Pp278uraUi&sig=ACfU3U1qsQVI53-UKcPcqaPgJos3wquNPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG5NLuh8flAhVtvFkKHbINDMcQ6AEwCnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22first%20statement%20means%20the%20same%20as%20the%20second%22%20runyon&f=false (2009)

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