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" Bart Giamatti : "
Robert P. Moncreiff.
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1026411
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b780781
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Moncreiff, Robert P.
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Bart Giamatti : : a profile /\ Robert P. Moncreiff.
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New Haven :: Yale University Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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0300137729
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: 1281735175
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: 6611735178
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: 9780300137729
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: 9781281735171
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: 9786611735173
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0300121873
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9780300121872
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index.
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Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Beginnings -- Boyhood -- Andover -- Yale -- Princeton -- Yale:Scholar and Teacher -- Yale in the 1960s and 1970s -- Scholar -- Teacher -- President-Designate -- Yale:University President -- Some Early Personnel Decisions -- The Homilies -- Budget Reform -- The President and New Haven -- The Labor Crisis -- Resignation -- An Appraisal -- Baseball -- The Green Fields of the Mind -- National League Presidentand Commissioner of Baseball -- The Pete Rose Affair -- Coda -- Notes and Sources -- Index
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This 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 favour 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.
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Giamatti, A. Bartlett.
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Giamatti, A. Bartlett.
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Yale University-- Presidents
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Yale University.
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Baseball commissioners-- United States, Biography.
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Baseball commissioners.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Educators.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.
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EDUCATION-- Higher.
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Presidents.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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378.1/11B
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LD6330 1978.M66 2007eb
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