Historydraftbeta HistorydraftbetaMadison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. Sunday Dec 16, 1906 Hot Dog
Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog
Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. Sunday Dec 16, 1906 However, Dorgan's earliest usage of hot dog was not in reference to a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, but to a bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, in The New York Evening Journal December 12, 1906, by which time the term hot dog in reference to sausage was already in use. In addition, no copy of the apocryphal cartoon has ever been found.