[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

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

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

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.

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

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.