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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

Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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 overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
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 don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball

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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