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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.

Bill Veeck

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
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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

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