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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Bill Veeck

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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
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
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
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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