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

Bill Veeck

Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
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
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECK

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

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

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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Mlb Winter
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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

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