For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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