Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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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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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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