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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.

Bill Veeck

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
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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Baseball Joy Running
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
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
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
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
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

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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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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