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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Bill Veeck

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

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

Baseball Games Late
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

Batteries Next Two
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
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
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
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECK

Believe Clear Details
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Mlb Winter
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
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.
BILL VEECK

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

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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People

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