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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTISome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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 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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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