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..

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..

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball..

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

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

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas..

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

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

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

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….

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….

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching..

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….

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 ….