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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

By Bill Veeck
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

By Bill Veeck
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

By Bill Veeck
That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.

By Bill Veeck
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

By Bill Veeck
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.

By 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 can't get you off.'

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

By Bill Veeck
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.

By Bill Veeck
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think it is the only thing.

By 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 can't get you off.

By Bill Veeck
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 that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

By Bill Veeck