The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECKWake 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….
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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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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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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