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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Bill Veeck

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
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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 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
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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