To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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To 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 GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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 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 GIAMATTITalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIPeople will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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 GIAMATTIBaseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTINo one man is superior to the game.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTISome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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