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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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