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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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 has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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