Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
