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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1785
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is More Character-building Than Ballplaying
|Headline=Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is More Character-building Than Ballplaying
|Year=1785
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Famous,
|Location=US South
|Location=US South
|Tags=Famous
|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>Jefferson:  "Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson [VA] letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., <u>The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</u> [Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 55.</p>
|Sources=<p>Thomas Jefferson [VA]. letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed.,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</span>&nbsp;[Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nine</span>, 2000;&nbsp;reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;ref # 55.</p>
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|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=1
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"Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."

 

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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. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," Nine, 2000; reprinted in David Block, ref # 55.

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