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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Bill Veeck

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
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
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
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want

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