We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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.