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.
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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAmericans 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeachers 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTINo one man is superior to the game.
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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIPeople will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIYou 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI