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Walt Whitman Sees Boys Playing "Base" in Brooklyn: "Glorious"
| Salience | Prominent |
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| Tags | FamousFamous |
| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | Juvenile, YouthJuvenile, Youth |
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| Text | In July of 1846 a Brooklyn Eagle piece by Walt Whitman read: "In our sun-down perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base," a certain game of ball. We wish such sights were more common among us. In the practice of athletic and manly sports, the young men of nearly all our American cities are very deficient. Clerks are shut up from early morning till nine or ten o'clock at night . . . . Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms . . . the game of ball is glorious."
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| Sources | "City Intelligence," Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat, vol. 5 number 177 (July 23, 1846), page 2, column 3. Reprinted in Herbert Bergman, ed., Walt Whitman. The Journalism. Vol. 1: 1834 - 1846. (Collected Works of Walt Whitman) [Peter Lang, New York, 1998], volume 1, page 477. Full Eagle citation submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2004. . |
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Note: Whitman's text also presented at John Thorn's Our Game at https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/opening-day-e5f9021c5dda. Note: Other connections between Whitman and base ball at at 1845.31, 1855.9, and 1858.25. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Craig Waff |
| Submission Note | 4/30/2007 |
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1846.6 Walt Whitman Sees Boys Playing "Base" in Brooklyn: "Glorious""
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