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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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

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