 The origin of the term in the context of celebrity is uncertain, but a similar expression is attested in John Nyren's 1832 cricket book "The Cricketers of My Time".Nyren described the 18th-century cricketer John Small as "a star of the first magnitude".The earliest use of the term "superstar" has been credited to Frank Patrick in reference to the ice hockey players on his Vancouver Millionaires teams of the 1910s and 1920s, specifically Cyclone Taylor.