Al Spalding

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.

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.