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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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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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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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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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