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

Bill Veeck

Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
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
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
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

Art Baseball Hate
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
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….
BILL VEECK

Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching

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