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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Bill Veeck

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
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People 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!…
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Baseball Reading Wall
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
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
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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

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