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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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