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|Year=1856 | |||
|Year Number=14 | |||
|Headline=Manly Virtues of Base Ball Extolled; 25 Clubs Now Playing in NYC Area | |Headline=Manly Virtues of Base Ball Extolled; 25 Clubs Now Playing in NYC Area | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|City=NYC | |||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Text=<p>"The game of Base Ball is one, when well played, that requires strong bones, tough muscle, and sound mind; and no athletic game is better calculated to strengthen the frame and develop a full, broad chest, testing a man's powers of endurance most severely . . | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
<p>"Base Ball [letter to the editor], < | |Text=<p>"The game of Base Ball is one, when well played, that requires strong bones, tough muscle, and sound mind; and no athletic game is better calculated to strengthen the frame and develop a full, broad chest, testing a man's powers of endurance most severely . . ." I have no doubt that some twenty-five Clubs . . . could be reckoned up within a mile or two of New-York, that stronghold of 'enervated' young men."</p> | ||
<p>"Base Ball [letter to the editor], <em>New York Times</em>, September 27, 1856. </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Full text is reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <span>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908</span> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 21-22.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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| Text | "The game of Base Ball is one, when well played, that requires strong bones, tough muscle, and sound mind; and no athletic game is better calculated to strengthen the frame and develop a full, broad chest, testing a man's powers of endurance most severely . . ." I have no doubt that some twenty-five Clubs . . . could be reckoned up within a mile or two of New-York, that stronghold of 'enervated' young men." "Base Ball [letter to the editor], New York Times, September 27, 1856. |
| Sources | Full text is reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 21-22. |
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