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

Bill Veeck

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.
BILL VEECK

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

Attitude Baseball Self
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.
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Baseball Men People
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
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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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

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