[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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