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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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Baseball Basketball Football
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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Art Baseball Hate
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People 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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter

Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

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