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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

Bill Veeck

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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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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