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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Bill Veeck

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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
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
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
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People 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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper

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