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

Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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

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

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