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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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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 tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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City Expression Imagination
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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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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