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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. "
Way
Looking
Park
" 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. "
Baseball
Sports
Lawyer
" Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. "
Theatre
Attitude
Audience
" I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. "
Most
Important
Only
" 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
Game
Years
" I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. "
Try
Test
Elasticity
" I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. "
Fool
Know
Mind
" 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? "
King
Live
Love
" Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? "
Want
Play
Look
" 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. "
Find
Wait
Bear
" The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. "
World
Beautiful
People
" There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. "
Seasons
Sports
Two
" The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. "
Sound
Returning
Spring
" 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. "
Myself
Up
Will
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