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Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (/dʒiːəˈmɑːti/; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Academic, Fallen, Friends, Grace, Special, Thinking

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

Winter, Pyramids, Olympus, Giza, Building

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

Acceptance, Chosen, Drawing, Habit, Passive, Rivers

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

Baseball, Game, Life, Player, Sorry

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Coercion, Ideas, Mediums, People

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Sports, People, Majors, Love, Society

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.

Art, Spectator, Teacher, Teaching

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that. ' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Racism, Sit, Expunge, Vestige, Say

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.

Belief, Capacity, Naive, Remarkably, Trouble

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

Convey, Culture, Made, Mind, University, Value

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Dark, Jobs, Military, Motion, Time, View

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Baseball, Green, Home, Journey, Proceed

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.

Baseball, Home, College, Obligation, Ruth, Game

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Lessons, Past, Power, Reserve, Wisdom

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

League, President, Wanted, American

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

Brother, Children, Responsibility, Families, Make, Sisters

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

Baseball, Believe, Believes, Law, Love, Nation

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Expression, Cities, Imagination, Physical, Making

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Alive, Baseball, High, Memories, Passage, Twilight

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

Baseball, Experience, Game, Games, Literature

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