Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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 naive.