Quotes from Henry Chadwick

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.

What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.

Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.

Celsus was the first known person to realize that this non-political, quietist, and pacifist community had it in its power to transform the social and political order of the empire.

To share in this sacred meal was so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society that fragments of the broken bread were taken round to any who were absent through illness or imprisonment.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.