The People Of America Care About Baseball,

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.

This Is Not The First Time In My Life Where You Know Going Into A Job That You're Going To Hear In Stereo What Was Wrong With What You Did.

Baseball Has Undergone And Absorbed A Whole Set Of Dislocations.

To Go From Yale To The National League Is Simply To Go From One Form Of Management To Another.

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