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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
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
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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
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
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
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

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

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