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Horace Greeley No Ballplayer

Salience Peripheral
Tags Famous
Location VT
Game Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Youth
Notables Horace Greeley
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Ball was a common diversion in Vermont while I lived there; yet I never became a proficient at it, probably for want of time and practice. To catch a flying ball, propelled by a muscular arm straight at my nose, and coming on so swiftly that I could scarcely see it, was a feat requiring a celerity of action, an electrice sympathy of eye and brain and hand, which my few and far-between hours snatched from labor for recreation did not suffice to acquire. Call it a knack, if you will; it was quite beyond my powers of acquisition. "Practice makes perfect." I certainly needed the practice, though I am not sure that any amount of practice would have made me a perfect ball-player.

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Greeley, Horace, "Recollections of a Busy Life". New York: J. B. Ford & Co.,  1869, page 117.

Comment

Perhaps published in a series, since it found in print earlier, for instance in the Davenport (IA) Democrat, Nov. 19, 1867.

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