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

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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 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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

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