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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.

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.

Talking To Yogi Berra About Baseball Is Like Talking To Homer About The Gods.

Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of Potential, Craving Of Realizations, A Pausing, Seamless Process, Where One Rehearses Constantly While Acting, Sits As A Spectator At A Play One Directs, Engages Every Part In Order To Keep The Choices Open And The Shape Alive For The Student, So That The Student May Enter In, And Begin To Do What The Teacher Has Done: Make Choices.

The Banishment For Life Of Pete Rose From Baseball Is A Sad End If A Sorry Episode. One Of The Game's Greatest Players Has Engaged In A Variety Of Acts Which Have Stained The Game, And He Must Now Live With The Consequences Of Those Acts. There Is Absolutely No Deal For Reinstatement.