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

Bill Veeck

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

Attitude Baseball Self
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
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….
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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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 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
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

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

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