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Rutherford Hayes Plays Ball as Student at Kenyon College, OH

Salience Noteworthy
Tags College, Famous
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In a May 13 letter to his brother, the future President observed: "Playing ball is all the fashion here now and it is presumed that I can beat you at that if not at chess."

 

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Williams, C. R., ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States volume 1 [Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society, Columbus OH, 1922], page 33. 

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Submitted by John Thorn
Submission Note 10/12/2004



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