A. Bartlett Giamatti

Angelo Bartlett "Bart " Giamatti ( dʒiəmɑ ː ti; born April 4, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 1, 1989 in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts) was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti was involved in the agreement that ended the 1989er Pete Rose betting scandal.

Origin

"Bart " Giamatti was the son of Mary Claybaugh Walton and John Valentine Giamatti. His father was a professor of Italian language and literature at Mount Holyoke College. Giamattis paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants, and his grandfather, Angelo Giammattei, emigrated in 1900 from Telese, a town near Naples, in the United States. Giamattis maternal grandparents, originally from Wakefield, were Helen Buffum Davidson and Bartlett Walton, who studied at the Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College.

Life

Giamatti grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts. He attended South Hadley High School and the Overseas School of Rome and studied at the Phillips Academy in 1956. At Yale University, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon ( Phi chapter) Brotherhood. He graduated magna cum laude in 1960. During the same year he married Toni Marilyn Smith, who more than 20 years, until her death in 2004, English at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut taught. Together the couple had three children: the Hollywood actor Paul and Marcus as the jewelry designer Elena.

In the movie Sideways a photo of the film character Miles Raymond (played by son Paul Giamatti ) to see with his late father. This is an original recording of Paul Giamatti.

Giamattis friend and successor as baseball commissioner, Fay Vincent, wrote in The Last Commissioner, Giamatti was agnostic.

Academic life

Giamatti received his doctorate in 1964, in which he published as a co-editor, together with then- graduate student of philosophy T. K. Seung, a volume of essays by Thomas Goddard Bergin. He became professor of comparative literature and is the author of Ezra Stiles College and master's at Yale University. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton University, but spent most of his academic life at Yale. His scientific work focused on the literature of the English Renaissance, particularly the English poet Edmund Spenser, and the relationships between poets English and Italian Renaissance. Importance are his writings on the pastoral influence in the literature and the influence of Ludovico Ariosto in English literature.

As a teacher he has been known to reject the view that the Renaissance have represented an abrupt cultural change. Much more, he emphasized the continuity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He looked at the Protestant Reformation as a " Protestant Deformation. "

When his term ended in 1972 as master of Ezra Stiles College, his students gave him a moose head, which was hung in the dining room solemnly.

Giamatti was the President of Yale University from 1978 to 1986, where he followed Hanna Holborn Gray, and then the youngest president in the history of the university. He presided during a bitter strike of office and technical employees in 1984-85. During his time as President of the University, he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College. Giamatti was 1980 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Baseball

Giamatti had a lifelong interest in baseball (he was a big fan of the Boston Red Sox). In 1986 he was appointed president of the National League, and from 1988 to the Commissioner of Baseball. During his time as president of the National League Giamatti put the emphasis on the need to improve the baseball stadiums. He also fought for the rights of minorities in filling managerial and coaching job, as general management posts of Major League Baseball.

In his time as National League president he locked Pete Rose for 30 games after this the referee Dave Pallone was concerned physically on 30 April 1988. Pete Rose accepted a compromise in 1990, the lifetime for baseball locked him in return, however, the Commissioners of Baseball renounced the publication of the examination results. Later that year, Giamatti also locked the Dodgers pitcher Jay Howell.

Death

While staying at his vacation home on Martha 's Vineyard Giamatti died of a massive heart attack at the age of 51 years. Successor as commissioner of Major League Baseball was his close friend Fay Vincent. Giamatti was the second baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis who died after during the active term.

On October 14, 1989, before Game 1 of the 1989 World Series, Giamatti, which this World Series was dedicated, was honored with a minute's silence. His son Marcus threw out the first pitch before the game. Before the first game of the MLB 1990 season at Fenway Park, the sound Giamatti widow threw out the ceremonial first pitch. She repeated this honor again before Game 7 of the World Series in 1997. The headquarters of the Eastern Regional Little League in Bristol, Connecticut is named Giamattis. A. "Bart " Giamatti was inducted into the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame posthumously in 1992.

James Reston, Jr. said in his book Collision at Home Plate: The Life of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti that Giamatti suffered from Charcot foot disease and an inherited neuromuscular disorder of peripheral nerves.

Works

• Masterpieces from the Files of TGB, ed Thomas K. A. Bartlett Giamatti and Swing (1964).
• The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic ( 1966)
• Play of Double Senses: Spenser 's Faerie Queene (1975 )
• The University and the Public Interest (1981 )
• Exile and Change in Renaissance Literature ( 1984)
• Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games ( 1989)
• A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University ( 1990)
• A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti (ed. Kenneth Robson, 1998)