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

Bill Veeck

I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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Baseball Basketball Football
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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

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