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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITo go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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