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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. – Bill Veeck
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. – Bill Veeck
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world cant get you off. – Bill Veeck
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. – Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974