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. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
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… — 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 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
