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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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Basketball Football
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
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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Art Baseball Hate
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
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
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
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.
BILL VEECK

Believe Clear Details
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self

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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