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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

The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Responsibility Social Successful Union
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 matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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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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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
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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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Teachers 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.
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Art Inspirational Power Strong Teacher

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