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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
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
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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Justice Men White
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
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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
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

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