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

Bill Veeck

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late

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