Top 8 Quotes by Albert Goodwill Spalding

Everything is possible to him that dares.

Dare

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

Player, Balls, Actors

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

Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball, Boys, Men

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

War, Blessing, Games

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

Albert Goodwill Spalding

Baseball, Games, Genius

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

Baseball, Determination, Discipline

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”