Quotes by Al Spalding

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