On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIIf 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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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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