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Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Bill Veeck

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
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
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
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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter

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