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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

Bill Veeck

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Games Late
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
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 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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
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….
BILL VEECK

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

Baseball Softball

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

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