I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Quote by Bill Veeck

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I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with...

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with...

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a...

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a...

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is...

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is...

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the...

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of...

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will...

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but...

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but...

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay...

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay...

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out...

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out...

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

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get...

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by...

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by...

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers...

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom...

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The wisest of the wise may err.