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|Year=1824 | |||
|Year Number=6 | |||
|Headline=Great Jurist Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA | |Headline=Great Jurist Recalls Schoolboy Baseball and Phillips Academy in MA | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
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|Country=US | |||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Cambrige | |||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Text=<p>"[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Cinders from the Ashes," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes</span> Volume 8 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1892), page 251. He went on to recollect visiting the school in 1867, when he "sauntered until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on, our old base-ball ground." <em>Ibid</em>, page 255.</p> | |||
|Text=<p>"[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit." | <p>This essay originally appeared in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Atlantic Monthly</span> Volume 23 (January 1869). page 120. <strong>Note:</strong> see item #1829c.3 below for Holmes' Harvard ballplaying.</p> | ||
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Text | "[At Phillips] Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentary form of base-ball and the heroic sport of foot-ball were followed with some spirit." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Cinders from the Ashes," The Works of Oliver Wendel Holmes Volume 8 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1892), page 251. He went on to recollect visiting the school in 1867, when he "sauntered until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on, our old base-ball ground." Ibid, page 255. This essay originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly Volume 23 (January 1869). page 120. Note: see item #1829c.3 below for Holmes' Harvard ballplaying. |
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