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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

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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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
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
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
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 want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
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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