No one man is superior to the game.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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