DOUBLEHEADER Definition & Meaning

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doubleheader

[duhb-uhl-hed-er]

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noun

Sports.��
1. two games, as of baseball, between the same teams on the same day in immediate succession.
2. two games, as of basketball, between two different pairs of teams on the same day in immediate succession.
two performances or two events occurring one after the other or within a short time of each other.
a railroad train pulled by two locomotives.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of doubleheader¹

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; double + head + -er ¹

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However, throwing live batting practice and taking four or five at-bats in an actual game as a designated hitter was like “playing a doubleheader for him,” Roberts said.

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Sunday wasn’t the first time that Pax Productions and the Padres teamed up to present the Beach Boys as part of a baseball/music doubleheader.

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The other matchup as part of a doubleheader has El Camino Real facing Birmingham at 3 p.m.

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El Camino Real will play Birmingham at 3 p.m. in the first game of the semifinal doubleheader.

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There won’t be a Monday night doubleheader in Week 1, as in years past, but there will be two this season, in Weeks 2 and 7.

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double harness double-header

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