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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

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

Athlete Guy Want
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Mlb Winter
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports

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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