The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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