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.
BILL VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Suffering is overated.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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