Baseball Has Undergone And Absorbed A Whole

The People Of America Care About Baseball, Not About Your Squalid Little Squabbles. Reassume Your Dignity And Remember That You (players During The 1981 Strike) Are The Temporary Custodians Of An Enduring Public Trust.

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.

Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity To It That Cannot Be Replaced By Anything Else.

The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That What Is Made By The Mind Has Value And Can Convey Values.

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.