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|Headline=Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is | |Headline=Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is Better for Character-building Than Ballplaying | ||
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|Text=<p>"Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."</p> | |Text=<p>"Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>Thomas Jefferson [VA]. letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</span> [Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. | |Sources=<p>Thomas Jefferson [VA]. letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</span> [Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> – see page 241.</p> | ||
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Sources | Thomas Jefferson [VA]. letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson [Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 241.
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