Al Spalding Quotes

"Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance."

"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."

"Baseball is a man maker."

"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."

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

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