All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA 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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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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