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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

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
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
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

Baseball Reading Wall
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

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