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Card: 1990 Topps #396
Position: Commissioner of Major League Baseball
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Angelo Bartlett Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
When Peter Ueberroth resigned in 1989, Bart was unanimously selected as the seventh MLB commissioner. He served as Commissioner for only five months before dying suddenly of a heart attack. In that time, he negotiated the agreement resolving the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment. Some feel that the stress of the Rose scandal may have contributed to his death.
Bart was born in Boston and grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Claybaugh Walton (Smith College 1935) and Valentine John Giamatti.
His paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants Angelo Giammattei and Maria Lavorgna: his grandfather Angelo emigrated to the United States from Telese, near Benevento, Italy, around 1900.
His book "Take Time for Paradise" was originally published in 1989. His other writings about baseball were collected posthumously in the book "A Great and Glorious Game", published in 1998. After his death, the new research center at the Hall of Fame was named the Giamatti Research Center.
Giamatti's son, Paul, is a well known actor.
(excerpted from Wikipedia and Baseball Reference)
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“The Green Fields of the Mind “
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, 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. (From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti by A. Bartlett Giamatti, et al)
(thank you Daniel Serafini for this card)
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