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.
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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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