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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball 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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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