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

Bill Veeck

Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK

Baseball Clip Paper
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
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

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

Games Play Stars
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
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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Baseball Reading Wall
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
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
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

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter

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