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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.

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

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
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
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
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

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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