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

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

Baseball is a game of inches.

There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.