Bill Veeck Quotes

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The Mets achieved total incompetence in a single year, while the Browns worked industriously for almost a decade to gain equal proficiency.

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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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To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. 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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Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U. S. Steel.

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

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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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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 would send a midget up to bat.

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

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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

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