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Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is Better for Character-building Than Ballplaying
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Text | "Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."
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Sources | Thomas Jefferson [VA]. letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785, in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson [Princeton University Press, 1953], volume 8, p. 407. Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 241.
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1785.1 Thomas Jefferson: Hunting is Better for Character-building Than Ballplaying"
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