I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay