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"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Al Spalding Quotes

Type: Athlete | Date of Birth: 0000-00-00 | Year of Death: | Nationality:

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
Al Spalding

Baseball is a man maker.
Al Spalding

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.
Al Spalding

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.
Al 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 soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.
Al Spalding

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
Al Spalding

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