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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!…

Bill Veeck

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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
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
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
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
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 season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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.
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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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

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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