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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

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
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
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
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
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
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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