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

Bill Veeck

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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports

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