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.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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