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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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Baseball Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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