The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of ac….

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart..

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….

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

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..

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….

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs..

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 ….

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer….

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism..

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….

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….

No one man is superior to the game..

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acti….

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