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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….

Bill Veeck

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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
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
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
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
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball

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