A. Bartlett Giamatti

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. ”

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 colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ”

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 or a building. ”

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

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

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. ”

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

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

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

The professionals must set a good example. ”