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"Oh Captain, my Captain".
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"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 closed rooms ... the game of ball is glorious."
Walt Whitman ........The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846)
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"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 closed rooms ... the game of ball is glorious."
Walt Whitman ........The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846)
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