To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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 professionals must set a good example.
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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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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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