Walt Whitman's baseball quote (surely not 1846!)

[Sam Clements]

Wallop's book was published in 1969, so, IF the quote is in there, it can
now be traced at least to 1969.
Sucks that my libraries are closed today.

SC

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> BASEBALL'S GREATEST QUOTATIONS
> by Paul Dickson
> 1991
>
> Pg. 468:
> WHITMAN, WALT
>  "I see great things in baseball.  It's our game--the American game.  It
will
> take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger
> physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous. dyspeptic
set.  Repair
> these losses, and be a blessing to us."
> --Unearthed by Douglass Wallop, the quote appears in his _Baseball: An
Informal History_