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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe 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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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