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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1862
|Year Number=12
|Headline=Reverend Beecher: Base-Ball is Best Form of Exercise
|Headline=Reverend Beecher: Base-Ball is Best Form of Exercise
|Year=1862
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>"It is well, therefore, that so many muscular games are coming into vogue. Base-ball and cricket are comparatively inexpensive, and open to all, and one can hardly conceive of better exercise."</p>
|Tags=Famous,
<p>Henry W. Beecher, <u>Eyes and Ears</u> (Sampson Low, London, 1862), age 191. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("vogue baseball" beecher). Beecher is here lauding exercise that is moth vigorous and inexpensive.</p>
|Country=UA
|State=MA
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Notables=Henry Ward Beecher
|Text=<p>"It is well, therefore, that so many muscular games are coming into vogue. Base-ball and cricket are comparatively inexpensive, and open to all, and one can hardly conceive of better exercise."</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>Henry W. Beecher,&nbsp;<span>Eyes and Ears</span>&nbsp;(Sampson Low, London, 1862), age 191. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("vogue baseball" beecher).&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>Beecher is here lauding exercise that is moth vigorous and inexpensive.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=12
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Reverend Beecher: Base-Ball is Best Form of Exercise

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Tags Famous
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Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Notables Henry Ward Beecher
Text

"It is well, therefore, that so many muscular games are coming into vogue. Base-ball and cricket are comparatively inexpensive, and open to all, and one can hardly conceive of better exercise."

 

Sources

Henry W. Beecher, Eyes and Ears (Sampson Low, London, 1862), age 191. Accessed 2/18/10 via Google Books search ("vogue baseball" beecher). 

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Beecher is here lauding exercise that is moth vigorous and inexpensive.

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