Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKWhen the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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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!…
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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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When the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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