For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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.

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.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.