Major League Baseball

"A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name."

"His contribution to the game, is not closely equaled by any other single person or group of persons." - Branch Rickey

"Johnson, a ruthless dreamer who lived and died believing that baseball was perfected in order to serve him as a gigantic chess board on which to move his living pieces." - Bob Considine

"The hiring of Landis was the thing that turned Johnson into a screaming harridan and had Ban been just a little less arrogant he might have saved himself the crushing burden of dealing with the equally arrogant Landis." - Bill Klem

"The making or amassing of money was not part of Ban Johnson's life. He lived for the American League and the game of baseball." - Branch Rickey

"The voice of the lion is stilled. They say the lion was getting old, that his roar had become a mumble. It may be so. But never, maybe, will be heard again such a voice. The roar that struck terror to evil doers, in high estate or low, and thrilled to new encouragement those who had ideals and the vision Ban Johnson had." - Earl Obenshain