The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values..

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace..

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society..

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most famil….

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….

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way..

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, dra….

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….

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations..

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….

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process..

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table..

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choice….

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods..

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 ….

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….

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If the….

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience..

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….

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 ….

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another..