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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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