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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

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

Break Elasticity Tests
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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Baseball Softball
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
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
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
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!…
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Baseball Reading Wall
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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

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

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