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Then perhaps a visit to a youth soccer tournament. After paying $20 to park, Roosevelt would walk to the edge of the long green pitch, goals and kids (wow, so many girls!) and collapsible chairs and umbrellas as far as the eye can see. He’d chat with a father wearing his daughter’s team colors. “You gotta play club, man. It’s the only way for your daughter to get a scholarship.”
The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete
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