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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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 matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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