There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECKThere are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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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