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Base Ball

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  • Title: Base Ball
  • Date: 22 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01059
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 22 July 1859: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Base Ball." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01059.xml (TEI)
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BASE BALL.—

A great many persons argue, from the number of base ball matches which are reported in the papers, that there is a reviving love for physical exercise and development among the youth of our country. If so, it is very limited in its extent; for when a National Base Ball Convention was held, there were no delegates but from New York State, and adjacent parts of New Jersey—showing the game to be confined to the metropolis and its environs.

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