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

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….

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

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer..

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

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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….

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else..

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

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 has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations..

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

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….

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

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….