If A Family Is An Expression Of

My Goal Has Been To Encourage Jointness, To Push People To Think Of Affiliations Rather Than To Operate As Solo Entrepreneurs.

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.

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.

Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of Potential, Craving Of Realizations, A Pausing, Seamless Process.

Major Sports Are Major Parts Of Society. It's Not Anomalous To Have People Who Love Sports Come From Other Parts Of That Society.