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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Bill Veeck

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
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
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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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Baseball Joy Running
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
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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Baseball Men People
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying

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