I said: 'Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!' He was hilarious: 'That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well - it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.'

We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely differ…

I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from bein…

I have just this moment heard from the front - there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen. O …

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high scho…

Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.