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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

Bill Veeck

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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
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
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
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
You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

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