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Rain check (baseball)
In baseball, a rain check is a ticket issued in case a baseball game is started but canceled due to rain (rained out) prior to reaching the point of becoming an official game.
The practice is recorded since the 1870s〔〔 – though it did not become generally established until the 20th century〔 – and today the term "rain check" is used idiomatically to refer to any deferred promise.
==History==
The institution of issuing tickets for games canceled due to rain dates at least to 1870,〔The New Orleans ''Times,'' April 30, 1870〕 while the term ''rain check'' dates to at least 1877; in the National League it was pioneered by the :〔''Chicago Times,'' July 8, 1877〕〔Morris thanks David Ball for the reference〕
Originally a rain check for a canceled game was simply a ticket valid for a future game – in lieu of a refund – not specifically for a makeup game. Further, at the time clubs would sell reusable hard cardboard tickets, which were turned in at the admissions gate, then resold at the box office at the conclusion of the game. Originally rain checks were issued to spectators as they exited, but this resulted in severe losses to clubs, due to free-riders and fence-climbers also getting tickets. This was solved by Abner Powell circa 1889 by using a stub on the original ticket as rain check. Powell is thus often incorrectly credited with inventing rain checks, while in fact he instead refined an existing practice.〔〔
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