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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.

Bill Veeck

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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
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
You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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 overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.

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