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 GIAMATTIThis 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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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 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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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