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 GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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