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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

I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECK

Justice Men White
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Games Late
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECK

Believe Clear Details
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

Batteries Next Two
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

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

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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….
BILL VEECK

Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECK

Effort Games Individual Team

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