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sand lot U.S.
Also with hyphen and as one word. 1. A plot of empty or undeveloped land, esp. in a town or suburb. Also used (usu. attrib.) to designate the followers of Dennis Kearney, the leader of a socialistic or communistic party which existed 1877–80 (see quot. 1888).
1878N.Y. Tribune 14 Aug. 4/3 Mr. Kearney, the ‘sandlot orator’ of California..came East with the prestige of a victorious leader. 1880San Francisco News Let. 3 July 10/1 The Sand-lot barely escaped a Kilkenny fight on Sunday last. 1885Mag. Amer. Hist. Feb. 201/2 One Dennis Kearney [sic]..made his headquarters in what were known as the ‘Sand lots’, near San Francisco. 1886Atlantic Monthly Sept. 416/2 We can or could appoint a Fenian [as ambassador] to London,..a sand-lot politician to China [etc.]. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. v. xc. 232 On the west side of San Francisco..there..was a large open space, laid out for building,..covered with sand, and hence called the Sand Lot. Here the mob had been wont to gather for meetings. Ibid. 245 After the session of 1880..what remained of the Sand Lot group was reabsorbed into the Democratic party. 1898G. F. Atherton Californians 37 She drew Helena into a sand lot opposite. 1913J. London Valley of Moon 78 I've known [about his bad thumb] since he first got it as a kid fightin' in the sandlot at Watts Tract. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 192 The scorched sandlots and pinebarrens laid out into streets. 1949Sun (Baltimore) 8 Jan. 9/5 The survey revealed that of the 18 direct fatalities [in football games] occurring in 1948, 6 were in ‘sandlots’. 1978Verbatim May 13/1 The sandlot in Washington Square has a sign ‘Sandlot reserved for children and their guardians’.
2. Used attrib. (now usu. as one word) with reference to sports and games of the kind played by amateurs in a sand lot.
1890Breeder & Sportsman (San Francisco) (Base Ball Suppl.) 7 June 3/3 Why..‘skates’ and ‘wafters’ are kept in the team simply because at one time they were alleged good players by some sand lot critic. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 10 Apr. 10/1 The National Baseball Federation, the governing body of the sandlot baseball, today went on record as opposing the ‘Black Sox’. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 14/4 The Bugle nine will be composed of the pick of sand lot teams. 1942Short Guide Gt. Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 12 ‘Village cricket’ which corresponds to sandlot baseball. 1954Encounter Oct. 8/2 Interpret what this goddamn cotton market is going to do tomorrow, and we can both quit chasing this blank blank sandlot ball team. 1964R. Murphy Pond iv. 64 He played sandlot football in the afternoons. 1979Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar./Apr. 24/1 Just once the kid with bad eyes hit a home run in an obscure sandlot game.
Hence sand lotter (also with hyphen and as one word), (a) a follower of Kearney; (b) one who plays in a sandlot team.
1887Chicago Advance 17 Feb. 107 [The California Chinese Mission] raised the last year in California $3,756, hoodlums, sandlotters and politicians to the contrary notwithstanding. 1889Breeder & Sportsman (San Francisco) 14 Dec. 485/1 The local sports kicked like old sand-lotters; they visited the judges stand..and told the poolseller that their money would never be paid. 1979N.Y. Times 6 Aug. c2/1 These White Sox..are stocked with college players, sandlotters and, as Lonborg says, ‘guys who love the game but, well, have some deficiencies’. |