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Bill Veeck [1914-1986] American

Rank: 104
Businessman, Promoter

William Louis "Bill" Veeck Jr., also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox.

Sports, Attitude, Knowledge

Quote	Tags	Rank
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.	Sports	101
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.	Knowledge	102
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.		103
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?		104
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.		105
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.		106
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.	Attitude	107
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.	Sports	108
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.		109
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.		110
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?		111
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.		112
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.		113
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.		114

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