Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of

No One Man Is Superior To The Game.

On Matters Of Race, On Matters Of Decency, Baseball Should Lead The Way.

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.

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 Of Eachother And, Through Those Moments Of Transmutation, To Know For An Instant What The Gods Know.

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.