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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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Idea Motivate Racism Represent Vestige
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
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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Athlete Champion Expert Game Legend Life World
The professionals must set a good example.
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Emotion Example Explore Family Good Life Motivation
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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Answer Feel Lust Mind Simple
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
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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Baseball Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
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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Explore Game Major Passion People Play Sport
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Bad Baseball Sports
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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Idea Innovation Mind Motivation People Soul
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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Education Hippie Knowledge Liberal Society Teaching
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
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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Explore Hope Job Military Sacrifice Time
No one man is superior to the game.
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Game Guide Men Success Superior Teamwork
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Knowledge League Management Plan Yale

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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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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