President Thomas Jefferson Baseball Related Quotations by Baseball Almanac

President Thomas Jefferson Baseball Related Quotations

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and baseball had yet to be invented. He did have an opinion about the growing interest in games played with a bat and ball and his only known reference to base ball is listed here.

"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind." - Thomas Jefferson

Quotations From Thomas Jefferson

"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind."

Quotations About Thomas Jefferson

"Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote the Declaration, made proper provision for baseball when he declared that 'all men are, and of right out to be, free and equal.' That's whay they are at the ball game, banker and bricklayer, lawyer and common laborer." - Baseball magazine (1921)

Quotations From & About Thomas Jefferson

The excerpt above by President Thomas Jefferson was taken from a letter to Peter Carr and it was dated August 19, 1785.

Did you know that the popular game of the day was called baste ball and many universities banned it as it was unbecoming for gentleman to play?

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