Baseball Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti Download Open image “On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.” — A. Bartlett Giamatti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball Decency Matter Race Should Way
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything.… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on… — Matt Kemp Copy Share Image
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care. — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
I think baseball can bring a lot of happiness to the people and people can be together. — Miguel Cabrera 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 is a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to… — Anthony Rendon Copy Share Image
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. — 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 League, Babe… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I don't want the electronic strike zone. I like the element of sometimes pitches don't get called. Guys don't receive it well or whatever… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League. — George Brett Copy Share Image
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
