Quote by Bill Veeck
I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, th

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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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

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

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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. – Mickey Mantle

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. – Ty Cobb

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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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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. – Earl Wilson

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