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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
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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Justice Men White
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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

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