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William Louis Veeck Jr. (/ˈvɛk/; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby, thus beginning the integration of the American League. Veeck was the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent fortune, and is responsible for many innovations and contributions to baseball.

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I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Believe, Details, Clear

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball, Mlb, Seasons, Winter

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

Baseball, Thing, Think, Thinking, Winning

Suffering is overated.

Life, Love, Overated, Relationship, Suffering

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

Baseball, Early, Finishes, Games, Starts, Too Late

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

Baseball, Break, Rules, Test, Tests, Trying

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

Ball, Bats, Capistrano, Sound, Spring, Swallows

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.

Able, Answer, Answers, Bats, Midget, Seen

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

Athlete, Guy, Natural, Ones, Want

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Art, Baseball, Hate, Hating, Part, Yankees

If U. S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Appomattox, Baseball, Doorknob, Grant, Player, Team

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.

Two, People, Waiting, Wait, Falstaff

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

Ballpark, Beautiful, People, Sports, Thing, World

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Dangerous, Kids, Know, Mind, Romancing, Trying

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

Batteries, Jungle, Lawyers, Two, Warfare

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

Baseball, Field, Identify, Individuals, Men, People

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

Baseball, Boys, Grown, Men

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.

Done, Dreamer, History, Important, Things

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

Baseball, Motivational, Outsmart, Outwork, People

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?

Games, Hear, King, Kings, Legs, Love

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