The Banishment For Life Of Pete Rose

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.

Winning Has A Joy And Discrete Purity To It That Cannot Be Replaced By Anything Else. Winning Is Important To Any Man's Or Woman's Sense Of Satisfaction And Well-being. Winning Is Not Everything; But It Is Something Powerful, Indeed Beautiful, In Itself, Something As Necessary To The Strong Spirit As Striving Is Necessary To The Healthy Character.

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.

Some Of My Academic Friends Think Ive Fallen From A Very Special Grace.

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.