To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMajor 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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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