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 GIAMATTIBaseball 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 GIAMATTIThere 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIPeople will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIUniversities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTISome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeachers 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI