Occupation: Commissioner Of Baseball Birth: April 4, 1938 Death: September 1, 1989
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process..
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 s….
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else..
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball..
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….
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs..
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are ….
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods..
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, an….
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another..
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from ….
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 l….
No one man is superior to the game..
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge o….
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League..
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism..
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, Judeo- Christ….
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so..
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience..
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values..
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer..