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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

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.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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
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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
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 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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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

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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