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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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 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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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