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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

Bill Veeck

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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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

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