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Generated interpretation, not documentary evidence. Two fictional adults meet raised palms outdoors; an imagined contemporary high five, not the 1977 players, uniforms or stadium.
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Why: A slap of raised hands for joy.
What to preserve: the 1977 baseball origin
Year and origin: 1977 · United States
Vote: 7/9 (historian 2 · future kid 3 · curator 2)
Learn more: High five on Wikipedia
Supplemental context
A high five makes celebration reciprocal: one person offers a raised palm and another completes the gesture. The Society for American Baseball Research reconstructs an influential 1977 account involving Dodgers players Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker after Baker’s home run. Its narrative also distinguishes that event from a later playoff exchange captured in a widely circulated photograph. This distinction matters when a familiar image is used to stand for an earlier moment. Beyond an origin story, the gesture shows how bodies communicate recognition, affiliation and shared achievement without a sentence. Future readers can consider how a routine social movement becomes associated with named people and then travels far beyond the setting in which its story became famous.
Creator/community: Celebrating participants; Glenn Burke and Dusty Baker in a prominent origin account Place/era: United States sports culture, especially the October 2, 1977 Dodgers account
Context and limits
The 1977 account is a prominent documented attribution, not proof that no human previously slapped raised hands. Do not misdate the later photograph as the October 2 event. The generated adults are fictional and are not Burke or Baker; participation and physical contact are context-dependent.
Where to learn more
- https://apiarybee.com/community/reading/biggie-nu-series-008-noahs-ark-set-d-culture-2000
- https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/october-2-1977-dusty-baker-hits-30th-homer-receives-first-ever-high-five-from-glenn-burke-in-dodgers-loss-to-astros/
Apiary library | Original Culture Ark article
Public ID and individual routes: pending publisher allocation. Internal source ID: D-1053
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