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

Bill Veeck

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
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 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
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
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
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
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

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

Break Elasticity Tests

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