"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind."
Letter to Peter Carr (August 19, 1785)
Jefferson, Thomas. <U>Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson</U>. Ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Volume I. 2nd Ed. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830. pp 287 and 346-7.