<P> According to a myth , the use of the complete phrase hot dog in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius `` Tad '' Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds . 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 . </P>
<P> According to a myth , the use of the complete phrase hot dog in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius `` Tad '' Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds . 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 . </P>
who came up with the name hot dog
who came up with the name hot dog
cartoonist Thomas Aloysius
cartoonist Thomas Aloysius