There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Suffering is overated.
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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.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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