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

Bill Veeck

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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
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
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

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