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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed

Bill Veeck

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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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 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
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
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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