Al Spalding

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

“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.”

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

“Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.”