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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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
Age: 51 †
Born: 1938
Born: April 4
Died: 1989
Died: September 1
Commissioner Of Baseball
University Teacher
Boston
Massachusetts
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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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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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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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