After the club got into a few tussles with Harrison supporters, OK got mixed up with slandering and sloganeering.
OK was the “misunderestimated,” “refudiated,” and “binders full of women” of its day, and it may have ended up with the same transitory fate if not for the fact that at the very same time, the telegraph was coming into use, and OK was there, a handy abbreviation, ready to be of service.
