It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECKIf there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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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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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 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 is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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