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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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