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

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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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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Art Baseball Hate
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
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
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
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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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Baseball Men People
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
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 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
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
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
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

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