Occupation: Commissioner Of Baseball Birth: April 4, 1938 Death: September 1, 1989
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..
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values..
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer..
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..
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..
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 ….
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way..
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to ….
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. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfact….
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures..
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..
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society..
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….
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..
The professionals must set a good example..