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

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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 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
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
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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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

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