Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr.

• Born May 31, 1819 in Huntington, NY USA
• Died March 26, 1892 in Camden, NJ USA

Biographical Information

Walt Whitman, the famous American poet, had connections to baseball. As a newspaper reporter, he covered early American ball games in the days before professional baseball. Here are some quotes from Whitman about baseball:

"It's our game . . . it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws . . ." - Walt Whitman

"Baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism." - Walt Whitman

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman