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Talking To Yogi Berra About Baseball Is Like Talking To Homer About The Gods.

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.

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.

There's Nothing Bad That Accrues From Baseball.

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.