“In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer p…”

“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 ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.”

— Walt Whitman

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Title: Wikiquote: Walt Whitman
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Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127

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Whitman, Walt. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Walt Whitman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

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