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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.