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

Bill Veeck

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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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.
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Athlete Guy Want
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
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
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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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