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 GIAMATTINo one man is superior to the game.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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