Baseball Quote by Branch Rickey

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

— Lou Gehrig

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.…

— Hank Aaron

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

— Pierre de Coubertin

More so than any other major American sport, baseball has the most diversity of culture and personality, and is the least marketable. Why? It…

— Trevor Bauer

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

— Chad Harbach

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

— Bob Feller

Baseball is part of our culture. It's part of us.

— Fernando Tatis Jr

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

— Sepp Blatter

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

— Michael Lewis