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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

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People 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
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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Art Baseball Hate
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
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
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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

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