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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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