In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
“There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.”
“I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.”