Walt Whitman's baseball quote (surely not 1846!)
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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_
"In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of
Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base,' a certain
game of ball."
--_Brooklyn Eagle_, July 1846
(Walt Whitman didn't write EVERYTHING in the newspaper--ed.)
(No date at all given for the first one, but I'd say the July 23, 1846
_Brooklyn Eagle_ has got to be wrong--ed.)
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