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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

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
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 VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK

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