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That the etymology, there, Faldo?
Aside from the fact that the Wally Pipp-Lou Gehrig story is pure bunk (http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/pipp.asp) the OED has a citation for pip in this sense from 1891. Wally Pipp was aproximately minus two years old in 1891. http://wally-pipp.biography.ms/
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