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I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Baseball has all the money.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

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

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.