The professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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