Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

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

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

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.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.