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Suffering is overated.

Bill Veeck

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
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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Baseball Softball
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
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self

Suffering is overated.

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