On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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