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Bill Veeck

9 February 1914-2 January 1986

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Baseball is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed.

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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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A Rule is best not broken, but you are certainly encouraged to test its elasticity.

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Spring is a time whose true harbinger is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.