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

Bill Veeck

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

Beautiful People Sports
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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Bats Sound Spring
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

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
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

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

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle

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

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