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Atlantic Monthly Piece by Higginson Lauds Base-ball

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Newspaper CoverageNewspaper Coverage
Location	New EnglandNew England
City/State/Country:	MA, United States
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
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Text	"The Pastor of the Worcester Free Church, the Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, wrote an influential argument for sports and exercise which appeared in the March 1858 issue of a new magazine called The Atlantic Monthly.
Sources	Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Saints, and Their Bodies," The Atlantic Monthly Volume 1, number 5 (March 1858), pp. 582-595. It is online at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABK2934-0001-122. See also item#1830s.22.
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Comment	Some commentary: His [Higginson's] comments on our national game are of great interest, for he welcomed the growth of 'our indigenous American game of base-ball,' and followed [author James Fenimore] Cooper's lead by connecting the game with our national character." A. Fletcher and J. Shimer, Worcester: A City on the Rise (Worcester Publishing, Worcester, 2005), page 11. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	what did Cooper say about the link between base ball and national character? Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	Craig Waff.
Submission Note	email of 9/25/2008
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