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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!…

Bill Veeck

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

Break Elasticity Tests
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

Batteries Next Two
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
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
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
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
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

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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