A. Bartlett Giamatti
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"Angelo Bartlett" ""Bart"" "Giamatti" was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Baseball/Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement terminating the Major League Baseball scandals#1980s Pete Rose betting scandal/Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Pete Rose/Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment.

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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

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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.

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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

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

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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

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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.

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

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