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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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
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
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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
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

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