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Atlantic Monthly Piece by Higginson Lauds Base-ball
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Newspaper CoverageNewspaper Coverage |
| Location | New EnglandNew England |
| City/State/Country: | MA, United States |
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| 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.
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| 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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1858.17 Atlantic Monthly Piece by Higginson Lauds Base-ball"
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