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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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.
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Baseball Joy Running
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
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
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 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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
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

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