My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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