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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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 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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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