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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball Common Decency Race
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
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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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
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
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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Bad Baseball Sports
The professionals must set a good example.
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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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Business Grace Motivate Soulful Special Think Unique
No one man is superior to the game.
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Game Guide Men Success Superior Teamwork
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
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Art Baseball Dislocation Explore Motivation People Unique Whole
I’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.
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Athlete Champion Expert Game Legend Life World
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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