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 GIAMATTIYou 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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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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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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