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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

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
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
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
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
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
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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 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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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

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

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