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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’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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 university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself

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