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A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes (18 quotes)

“It [baseball] 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.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source/Notes:
The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in 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.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: Book of Sports Quotes (1979) by Bert Sugar

“No one man is superior to the game.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“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.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source/Notes:
The university and the public interest (1981 edition), Scribner

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”
―A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source/Notes:
President of Yale University

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

Born: April 4, 1938

Died: September 1, 1989 (aged 51)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Bio: Angelo Bartlett Bart Giamatti was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further punishment.

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