Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

About A. Bartlett Giamatti:

Angelo Bartlett was 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.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians...

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things — and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religi...

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

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The professionals must set a good example.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

No one man is superior to the game.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Author Bio

  • NameA. Bartlett Giamatti
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball commissioner
  • AliasesA bartlett giamatti; Angelo Bartlett Giamatti; Bartlett Giamatti; Angelo Giamatti; Bart Giamatti
  • BornApril 4, 1938
  • DiedSeptember 1, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship