Albert Goodwill Spalding quotes

Albert Goodwill Spalding quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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“Baseball is a man maker.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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

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“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.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

Source : Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”

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“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.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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“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.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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“Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.”
-- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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