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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

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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
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
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 most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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 Softball
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
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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

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