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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

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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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 matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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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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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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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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