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People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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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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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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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] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
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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 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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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