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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.

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.

Far Better To Think Historically, To Remember The Lessons Of The Past. Thus, Far Better To Conceive Of Power As Consisting In Part Of The Knowledge Of When Not To Use All The Power You Have. Far Better To Be One Who Knows That If You Reserve The Power Not To Use All Your Power, You Will Lead Others Far More Successfully And Well.

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.

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.