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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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 don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
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
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
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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

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