Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Goodwill Spalding

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American baseball manager Albert Goodwill Spalding.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
Albert Goodwill Spalding

Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois yet graduated from Rockford Central High School in Rockford, Illinois. He played major league baseball between 1871 and 1878. Spalding set a trend when he started wearing a baseball glove.

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.
Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.
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
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
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.
Everything is possible to him that dares.
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