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Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

— Al Spalding

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

— Ted Williams

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

— Hack Wilson

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

— Bob Lemon

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

— Nick Johnson

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

— Barry Bonds

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

— Bruce McCulloch

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

— Vin Scully

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

— Dan Quisenberry

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

— Joe Torre

✗Opposing Perspectives

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.

— John Montgomery Ward