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

Bill Veeck

I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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
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 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
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
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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship

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