The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. - Bill Veeck
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
- Bill Veeck
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. - Bill Veeck
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. - Bill Veeck
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. - Bill Veeck
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done. - Bill Veeck
I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. - Bill Veeck
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. - Bill Veeck
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance. - Bill Veeck
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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. - 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.
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