Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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No one man is superior to the game.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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