Al Spalding Quotations

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Baseball is a man maker.

Everything is possible to him that dares.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.