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…

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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

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 soldi…

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthus…

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

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

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

Everything is possible to him that dares.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball is a man maker.

- Albert Goodwill Spalding