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..
The professionals must set a good example..
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..
No one man is superior to the game..
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfact….
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choice….
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace..
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another..
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching..
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball..
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so..
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as n….
Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk i….
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism..
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acti….
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….
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods..
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….
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 ….
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the ….
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….