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Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
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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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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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