A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamattiwas an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement terminating the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth4 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
athlete world experts
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.
mind culture made
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
thinking goal people
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
sports people majors
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
racism
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
baseball dislocation whole
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
baseball games literature
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
thinking grace special
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
success beautiful strong
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
yale league management
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
jobs firsts first-time
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.