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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published:
1991
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14068430126
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Very good in Good jacket. xii, [2], 123, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Gift note in ink on half-title. DJ has small tear at bottom front near spine. DJ has some wear and soiling. The author deftly interviews excerpts from Giamatti's own writings on baseball and literature with commentary and accolades from fans, colleagues, and baseball aficionados. Anthony Valerio is an author, editor and teacher. He was a book editor in major publishing houses, including McGraw-Hill. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review and in anthologies published by The Viking Press and Random House. He is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including the cult classics The Mediterranean Runs Through Brooklyn, Valentino and the Great Italians. His bestselling BART: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti was praised by Larry King "A wonderful read." Anthony Valerio taught at New York University, the City University of New York, Wesleyan University and he's going to start two semesters at a consortium of universities in Bologna, Italy. He lectures widely in the United States and Europe. Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938-September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti served as Commissioner for only five months before dying suddenly of a heart attack. He is the shortest-tenured baseball commissioner in the sport's history and the only holder of the office not to preside over a full Major League Baseball season. Giamatti is best remembered today for negotiating the agreement resolving the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment. Giamatti had a lifelong interest in baseball (he was a diehard Boston Red Sox fan). In 1978, when he was first rumored to be a candidate for the presidency of Yale, he had deflected questions by observing that "The only thing I ever wanted to be president of was the American League." His articles "Tom Seaver's Farewell", published in Harper's Magazine in September 1977, and "Baseball and the American Character, " published in that magazine in October 1986, are but two of many of his baseball publications. Giamatti became president of the National League in 1986, and later commissioner of baseball in 1989. During his stint as National League president, Giamatti placed an emphasis on the need to improve the environment for the fan in the ballparks. He also decided to make umpires strictly enforce the balk rule and supported "social justice" as the only remedy for the lack of presence of minority managers, coaches, or executives at any level in Major League Baseball. While still serving as National League president, Giamatti suspended Pete Rose for 30 games after Rose shoved umpire Dave Pallone on April 30, 1988. Later that year, Giamatti also suspended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jay Howell for three days, after Howell was caught using pine tar during the National League Championship Series. Giamatti, whose tough dealing with Yale's union favorably impressed Major League Baseball owners, was unanimously elected to succeed Peter Ueberroth as commissioner on September 8, 1988.
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Seller's Description:
Photographs. Vary Good in Good jacket. Hardcover Biography Sports*: A hardcover pictorial biography of the scholar, president of Yale and commissioner of baseball in his own words and those of collegues. The book is in excellent shapoe, but the dj is slightly tarnished. Thank you for shopping at an independent bookstore.