Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.
David HalberstamOne of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
David HalberstamWhat looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
David HalberstamThis was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
David HalberstamIf there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.
David Halberstam