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Bart Giamatti - A Profile (Hardcover, New)
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Bart Giamatti - A Profile (Hardcover, New)
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This vivid portrait of Bart Giamatti encompasses his entire
eventful life but focuses especially on his years at Yale
University (1966-1986) and his brief career as a major league
baseball executive (1986-1989). As scholar, teacher, and then
university president, Giamatti was an admired and respected figure
on campus. He forged his academic career during turbulent decades,
and his tenure in baseball was no less contentious, for as
commissioner of baseball he oversaw the banishment of Cincinnati's
Pete Rose from the game for gambling. The book draws on Giamatti's
numerous writings and speeches to illuminate the character and
complexities of the man and to understand the values that motivated
his leadership.
Bart Giamatti was a cultural conservative and institutional
moderate at a time when such values were out of favor and under
attack. At Yale, as a baseball executive, and indeed in all things,
Giamatti championed the related values of freedom and order. Robert
P. Moncreiff places Giamatti in the context of major events at
Yale, recounts in detail the legal context in which the Pete Rose
affair unfolded, and arrives at a nuanced understanding of this
memorable man's life.
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