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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.

Bill Veeck

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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Basketball Football
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

Batteries Next Two
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms

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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