#league

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#always #baseball #basketball #coach #excuse

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#form #go #league #management #national

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. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#academic #background #culture #especially #ivy

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men. ↗

— Max Hastings

#colleagues #dealt #disciplined #found #god

I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#believe #colleagues #courts #difficult #divergent

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#aggressor #armed #collective #cut #form

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#armies #between #british #british empire #building