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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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