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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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.
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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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