Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Suffering is overated.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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