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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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
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
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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Art Baseball Hate
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests

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