I donโt care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I donโt care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.
Ford FrickReview your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford FrickTake pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford FrickBaseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.
Ford FrickI cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseballโs greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himselfโฆCertainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.
Ford Frick