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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMajor 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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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