03236nam 2200625Ia 450 991095569490332120200520144314.01-281-73517-597866117351730-300-13772-910.12987/9780300137729(CKB)1000000000477731(OCoLC)173642469(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190710(SSID)ssj0000108918(PQKBManifestationID)11132802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108918(PQKBWorkID)10044535(PQKB)10921479(MiAaPQ)EBC3420253(DE-B1597)485364(OCoLC)1024013225(DE-B1597)9780300137729(Au-PeEL)EBL3420253(CaPaEBR)ebr10190710(OCoLC)923591182(OCoLC)1024013225(EXLCZ)99100000000047773120060721d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBart Giamatti a profile /Robert P. Moncreiff1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20071 online resource (xvi, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12187-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Beginnings --Yale: Scholar and Teacher --Yale: University President --Baseball --Coda --Notes and Sources --IndexThis 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.Baseball commissionersUnited StatesBiographyBaseball commissioners378.1/11BMoncreiff Robert P1889501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955694903321Bart Giamatti4529916UNINA