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Featured The first documented appearance of the finger in the United States was in 1886, when Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to member of their rival the New York Giants. wiki The finger

Old Hoss Radbourn gives the first middle finger ever photographed and the first documented use in the United States (1886). : r/baseball

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Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn (standing, far left) giving the finger to the cameraman, the first known photograph of the gesture (1886) : r/baseball