I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty.

I don’t like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn’t exciting if half the stadium is empty.
BOWIE KUHN

Baseball Football Sports Stadium
Salary arbitration is probably in place – was put in place then and probably is in place now – because I supported it.
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Arbitration Salary Umpires
I had a lot of self-confidence.
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Confidence Lot Self
The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.
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Afternoon Baseball People Violence
So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.
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Patience REquired Taken Thinking

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