Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

He's the best prospect I've ever seen.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.