I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
