A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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