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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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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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 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 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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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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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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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