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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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