Bartlett Giamatti
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...
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.
past thinking lessons
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
tables students eating
It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
responsibility successful social
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
simple lust mind
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
inspirational teacher art
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.
baseball heart green-fields
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
teamwork men games
No one man is superior to the game.
ideas people coercion
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
acceptance agreement rivers
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.
baseball believe law
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
baseball games literature
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
art teaching realization
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
baseball talking yogi
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.