Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.