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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.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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Art Baseball Hate
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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 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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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Baseball Softball

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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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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