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A. Bartlett Giamatti quotes

American Educator April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989

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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. A. Bartlett Giamatti
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, 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. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious. A. Bartlett Giamatti
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. A. Bartlett Giamatti
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. A. Bartlett Giamatti
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship... A. Bartlett Giamatti
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. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at..."
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving..."
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "No one man is superior to the game."
No one man is superior to the game. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball."
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should..."
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti quote: "All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. A. Bartlett Giamatti

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