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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
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
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
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
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!…
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Baseball Reading Wall
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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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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