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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
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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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