Quotes by Bill Veeck

Bill Veeck

American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter

Lived from: 1914 -

Born: 9 february 1914

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  • 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.
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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 can't get you off.
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  • Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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  • Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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  • 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.
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  • The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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  • This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill Veeck?

The two most famous quotes from Bill Veeck are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Bill Veeck live?

Bill Veeck is still alive and was born in 1914.