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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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