It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people