All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
“Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things … — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense,… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
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