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

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 14 02:04:11 UTC 2004


On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Tom Kysilko wrote:

> The Sarandon character concludes her quotation of Whitman with a quotation
> of Casey Stengel: "You can look it up."

As discussed before here, this is actually a James Thurber quote.

Fred Shapiro


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