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
sports believe games
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 believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
baseball people know-me
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.
baseball
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
baseball race common-decency
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
league president wanted
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
baseball memories twilight
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
expression cities imagination
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.
thinking grace special
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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.
people idealist
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
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.
baseball player america
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
baseball dislocation whole
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
christian baseball dream
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.