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

Bill Veeck

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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 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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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

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