Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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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.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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