Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere 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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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 matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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