Angelo Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.

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

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• I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.

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• 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.

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

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• Some of my academic friends think I’ve fallen from a very special grace.

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• The professionals must set a good example.

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• The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

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• 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.

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• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• No one man is superior to the game.

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• On a good day, I view the job [of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

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Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (28)

Birth:	4th April, 1938
Death:	1st September, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commissioner, Professor

About

Angelo Bartlett Giamatti was born in Boston and grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Despite having the shortest term of any commissioner, Giamatti made perhaps the most famous decision ever by a commissioner in negotiating 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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