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{{Chronology Entry
|Headline=Future OH Senator Has No Interest in Playing Ball
|Year=1830
|Year=1830
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Number=21
|Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=40.4172871, -82.90712300000001
|State=OH
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>"Notwithstanding his studious habits as a boy [Clement Vallandigham] was fond of out-door sports, although never very fond of what the youngsters call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p>
|Text=<p>"Notwithstanding his studious habits as a boy [Clement Vallandigham] was fond of out-door sports, although never very fond of what the youngsters call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."</p>
<p>James L. Vallandigham, <u>A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham</u> (Turnbell Brothers, Baltimore, 1872), page 10. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Clement Vallandigham was born in 1820 in Lisbon OH and grew up there. The biography, barren for our purposes was accessed 11/15/2008 via a "life of clement" Google Books search. <b>Note:</b> is it helpful to list activities that biographers say did not happen?</p>
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|Sources=<p>James L. Vallandigham,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham</span>&nbsp;(Turnbell Brothers, Baltimore, 1872), page 10. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"<em>&nbsp;Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Clement Vallandigham was born in 1820 in Lisbon OH and grew up there. The biography, barren for our purposes was accessed 11/15/2008 via a "life of clement" Google Books search.&nbsp;<strong><br /></strong></p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=21
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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"Notwithstanding his studious habits as a boy [Clement Vallandigham] was fond of out-door sports, although never very fond of what the youngsters call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."

 

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James L. Vallandigham, A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham (Turnbell Brothers, Baltimore, 1872), page 10. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32. Clement Vallandigham was born in 1820 in Lisbon OH and grew up there. The biography, barren for our purposes was accessed 11/15/2008 via a "life of clement" Google Books search. 

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