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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Mlb Winter
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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
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
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

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