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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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
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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Buy Family First Job Love Money Rich
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Art Creative Knowledge Mindful Process Teach
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher
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
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 Believe Country Law Learn Library
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
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
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
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Art Baseball Dislocation Explore Motivation People Unique Whole
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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Belief Capacity Life Luck Motivate Trouble
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
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Business Grace Motivate Soulful Special Think Unique
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Baseball Experience Literature

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