Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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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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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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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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