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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Bill Veeck

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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Justice Men White
Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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Bats Sound Spring
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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Baseball Men People
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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