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I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing. I bought a team.

Charlie Finley
Oakland Athletics
Owner

I don't blame the other club owners. We'd have walked away with the pennant.

After a general rejection of his idea to field a team of stars from the Negro National League as a solution for what the NL should do with the Phillies which was being operated by the League in World War II during the period after their owner, Gerry Nugent, gave up

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

On Joe DiMaggio.

George Steinbrenner
New York Yankees
Owner

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.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Eddie, how would you like to be a big league ballplayer? Eddie, you'll be the only midget in the history of the game. You'll be appearing before thousands of people. Your name will go into the record books for all time. You'll be famous, Eddie. You'll be immortal.

To midget Eddie Gaedel during the time leading up to his one and only at-bat

1951
William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

If free isn't good enough, I have nothing else to say.

With the 2000 season getting underway and no English-language radio deal in place for Expos games, on having no takers for his offer to give away the season on radio such that the station can keep all advertising revenue

Jeffrey Loria
Montreal Expos
Owner

A typical White Sox rally consisted of two bloopers, an error, a passed ball, a couple of base on balls, and, as a final crusher, a hit batsman. Never did a team make less use of the lively ball.

Commenting on the Go Go Sox of 1959

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

Fans like home runs. And we have assembled a pitching staff to please our fans.

Clark Calvin Griffith
Washington Senators
Owner
HOF 1947

When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

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?

On why he became one of baseball's most colorful showmen

William Louis "Bill" Veeck
Cleveland Indians
Owner
HOF 1991

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