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Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is More Character-building Than Ballplaying
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Text | Jefferson: "Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind." 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," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 55. |
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1785. Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is More Character-building Than Ballplaying"
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