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

Bill Veeck

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!…
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Baseball Reading Wall
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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
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
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
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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

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

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