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

[Sam Clements]

Barry,

Nice catch.

Newspaperarchive, which I'm sure you used, can only find a listing from a
Cleveland sportswriter from 1989.

Maybe, like the "sunscreen" commencement
address wrongly attributed to Vonnegut a few years ago, it's a modern
concoction, but sounds like something Whitman would have written.

Sam Clements
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> "I see great things in baseball.  It's our game--the American game.  It
will take people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a large
physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set.
Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
> ---Walt Whitman
> Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 23, 1846
> (NEW YORK SUN, Tuesday, 6 July 2004, page 1, col. 2.)