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Quote by Robert Benchley
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. – Robert Benchley

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England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. – Robert Benchley

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. – Robert Benchley

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The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. – Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985

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The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. – Andre Dawson, on Montreal

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Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off… the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. – Rick Maksian

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I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. – Bill Veeck

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