Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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.
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.
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 society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
