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14 quotes by Bill Veeck

William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr. (/ˈvɛk/; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby and thus successfully integrated the American League. Veeck...
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

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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... →

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I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

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

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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

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What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I... →

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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

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After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by... →

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I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only... →

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