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MILESTONES, Page 73
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."