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Angelo Bartlett Giamatti
The Washington Post; 9/3/1989; 461 words
; WHEN A. Bartlett Giamatti, former professor of comparative ... League three years ago, a baseball fan had good reason ... go over with The Sporting News? The Sporting News, for the uninitiated, is a hard-core weekly for the ... writers, as cantankerous a lot as ever sat cursing ...
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti
The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/1998; Anonymous; 153 words
; A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti, edited by Kenneth J. Robson. A distinguished scholar ... commissioner of baseball, A. Bartlett Giamatti was a man of extraordinary ... the game today. In a word, Giamatti was a ...
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Up to bat. (A. Bartlett Giamatti is elected baseball commissioner)
U.S. News & World Report; 9/19/1988; 81 words
; As a scholar of Dante's Divine ... The ex-president of Yale, A. Bartlett Giamatti (a baseball disciple and Red ... game's seventh commissioner. Giamatti, 50, with two years' experience ... League president, takes on a tough job at a crucial time. He faces ...
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A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI
The Boston Globe; 9/3/1989; 316 words
; ... South Hadley, the son of a professor of Italian literature at Mount Holyoke College. A Red Sox fan, he chose Bobby ... chronicles the boyhood dreams of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who died Friday in Edgartown at 51. As a boy, listening to the radio ... lyrically in the life of Bart ...
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Baseball Is in Good Hands; John Tower could learn something from A. Bartlett Giamatti.
The Washington Post; 3/2/1989; David S. Broder; 811 words
; ... occupant of that job, A. Bartlett Giamatti, displayed on his swing ... modest and-except for a certain squishiness ... for the OvalOffice. Giamatti is a bearded, beer-belly ... reticence, and then Giamatti will be a just-about-perfect commissioner ...
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A. Bartlett Giamatti. (People Making News) (obituary)
U.S. News & World Report; 9/11/1989; 89 words
; A. Bartlett Glamatti did not wait for the appropriate ... saying he would rather be president of a baseball league. Within eight years ... early, death would not wait either. Giamatti, a chain smoker, fell of a heart attack last week at age 51.
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Freedom of the mind comes first. (A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale commencement)
U.S. News & World Report; 6/16/1986; Giamatti, A. Bartlett; 457 words
; ... lives as we lead them defy hunger for a neat, bordered existence and for spirits ... to humanity or will happen. There is a rage to purity in any doctrine so conceived ... master others is to create and foster a principle and process of education that ... values it cherishes. Such an education is a ...
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When will baseball find a new boss? Selig still denies he'll remain commissioner, despite pressure and lack of progress in search; Baseball's commissioners Bud Selig has been baseball's interim commissioner since Sept. 9, 1992. Following are the men who have held the office and the lengths and dates of their tenures: Commissioner Term Dates Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis 24 years Nov. 12, 1920-Nov. 25, 1944 A.B. "Happy" Chandler 6 years, 3 months April 24, 1945-July 15, 1951 Ford Frick 14 years, 2 months Sept. 20, 1951-Nov. 16, 1965 Gen. William Eckert 3 years, 1 month Nov. 17, 1965-Dec. 20, 1968 Bowie Kuhn 15 years, 7 months Feb. 4, 1969-Sept. 30, 1984 Peter V. Ueberroth 4 years, 6 months Oct. 1, 1984-March 31, 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti 5 months April 1, 1989-Sept. 1, 1989 Francis T. "Fay" Vincent Jr. 3 years Sept. 13, 1989-Sept. 7, 1992 Allan H. "Bud" Selig 4 years, 4 months Sept. 9, 1992-present
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/26/1996; TOM HAUDRICOURT; 1368 words
; ... is greater than ever. Hardly a day has passed since owners approved a long-awaited labor agreement ... Obviously, I'm not much of a prognosticator," the Milwaukee ... one month), the late Bart Giamatti (five months) and Fay Vincent ... remain on the job only until a labor agreement was ...
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Baseball is 'resistant to a lot of change.' (A. Bartlett Giamatti) (interview)
U.S. News & World Report; 10/13/1986; Sanoff, Alvin P.; 783 words
; Baseball is resistant to a lot of change' Going from president of Yale to president of the National League doesn't represent a midlife career change. I made a much more dramatic shift when I left the Yale faculty to become ...
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Like former Yale president, Toni Giamatti had panache
New Haven Register; 9/22/2004; 349 words
; ... Toni Smith Giamatti agreed she ... University President A. Bartlett Giamatti. According ... remembered her as "a stunningly ... Elena, became a writer. Toni Smith Giamatti cut back on ... added. Although Giamatti was serious ... said, "she had a great sense ...
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