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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.

Bill Veeck

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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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
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
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

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