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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

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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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 don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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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Baseball Reading Wall
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
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
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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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

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