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- Sep. 11, 1989: Died:A. Bartlett Giamatti
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 73
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- <p> DIED. A. Bartlett Giamatti, 51, erudite, passionate
- commissioner of major league baseball and former president of
- Yale; of a heart attack, eight days after he succeeded in
- barring Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose from baseball for
- betting on games; in Edgartown, Mass. A Renaissance scholar and
- Renaissance man, Giamatti wryly noted upon his 1978 installation
- as Yale president that his true dream was to be president of the
- American League. In 1986 he got his wish--only it was the
- National League; he became baseball commissioner last April. As
- learned about the subtleties of the balk call as he was about
- Dante, he liked to philosophize about the national pastime: "I
- grew up believing in values and also believing we'll often fall
- short of realizing them. The best hitters fail about 70% of the
- time. But that's no reason for them, or for any of us, to give
- up."
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