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

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
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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Justice Men White
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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 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
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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
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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports

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