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

Bill Veeck

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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