Today's quotes come from the Hall of Fame owner Bill Veeck. Veeck was a brilliant visionary and promoter in a game built on tradition. His induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991 proves just how much of an impact he has made on the game. Included in his many contributions was the signing of Larry Doby to become the first African American to play in the American League.
"To compare baseball with other team games is to say the Hope Diamond is a nice chunk of carbon. The endless variety of physical and mental skills demanded by baseball is both uncomparable and incomparable."
This one is from Bill Veeck's book The Hustler's Handbook .
"Baseball's unique possession, the real source of our strength, is the fan's memory of the times his daddy took him to the game to see the great players of his youth. Whether he remembers it or not, the excitement of those hours, the step they represented in his own growth and the part those afternoons--even one afternoon--played in his relationship with his own father is bound up in his feeling toward the local ball club and toward the game. When he takes his own son to the game, as his father once took him, there is a spanning of the generations that is warm and rich and--if I may use the word--lovely."
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