The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECKWhen there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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 is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Suffering is overated.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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