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.
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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