This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKHating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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