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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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
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
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
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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.
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Baseball Joy Running
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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

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