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

Bill Veeck

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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
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Baseball Joy Running
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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

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