GALLERY GOD



Before the " peanut gallery" (1893 in the DA), there were the "gallery

gods" (not in the DA). Both terms began with the stage but moved to baseball

and other venues. Dickson's BASEBALL DICTIONARY records neither term.

The Daily Graphic (N.Y.), 29 March 1879 has "A GALLERY GOD'S/

REMINISCINCES PAST AND CRITICISMS PRESENT OF THE STAGE. I am one of the

gods

of the gallery, and an old gallery god, too."



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