American - Educator | April 4, 1938 - September 1, 1989
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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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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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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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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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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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