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Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and later, the 7th commissioner of Major League Baseball in the United States. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further punishment. Image File history File links Bartgiamattistatement. ...
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Oak Bluffs is a town located on Marthas Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts. ...
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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Marcus Giamatti (born October 3, 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. ...
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Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Personal life
Giamatti, born in Boston, grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the home of Mount Holyoke College. His father, Valentine Giamatti, was chairman of the Department of Italian Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke. He collected translations of Dante's Divine Comedy; his collection of illustrated versions now resides at Mount Holyoke. He also collected Etruscan artifacts and Roman coins. Giamatti's mother, Mary Claybaugh Walton (Smith College '35), was the daughter of Bartlett and Helen (Davidson) Walton of Wakefield, Massachusetts. His maternal grandfather graduated from Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College. His paternal grandfather, Angelo Giammattei (so spelled) immigrated from Italy through Ellis Island around 1900. Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area - City 232. ...
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Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ...
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Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States []. Smith admits only female undergraduates, but admits both men and women as graduate students. ...
Wakefield is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States located ten miles northeast of Boston. ...
Phillips Academy (also known as Andover, Phillips Andover, or simply P.A.) is a co-educational University preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12. ...
Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, founded in 1636. ...
Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
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A. Bartlett Giamatti attended South Hadley High School, spent his junior year at the Overseas School of Rome, and graduated from Phillips Academy in 1956. At Yale University, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and as a junior was tapped by Scroll and Key, a senior secret society. He graduated magna cum laude in 1960. That same year, he married Toni Smith, who taught English for more than 20 years at the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut, until her death in 2004. They raised three children. Sons Paul and Marcus are actors, and daughter Elena is a designer of jewelry. In the movie Sideways, a photograph of the younger Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) with his late father is really a picture of Paul and Bart Giamatti. Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society established by John Addison Porter and others at Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1842. ...
Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Nickname: Location in Connecticut Coordinates: NECTA New Haven Region South Central Region Settled 1638 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1895 Government - Type Mayor-board of aldermen - Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. ...
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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Marcus Giamatti (born October 3, 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. ...
Sideways is a 2004 Academy Award- winning and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy/drama film, co-written and directed by Alexander Payne. ...
Giamatti's friend, Fay Vincent, wrote in The Last Commissioner that Giamatti's official religion was agnosticism. Francis Thomas Fay Vincent, Jr. ...
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Yale Giamatti stayed in New Haven to receive his doctorate in 1964. He became a professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale. He spent a brief period teaching at Princeton, but was at Yale for most of his teaching life. Giamatti's scholarly work focused on English Renaissance literature, particularly Edmund Spenser, and relationships between English and Italian Renaissance poets. His work on the genre of pastoral and on the influence of Ludovico Ariosto in England remains influential. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
Ezra Stiles College is a residential college at Yale University, built in 1961 by Eero Saarinen. ...
Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ...
This article is about the cultural movement known as the English Renaissance. ...
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The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ...
Titians The Pastoral Concert Pastoral refers to the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. ...
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When Giamatti's tenure as Stiles master ended in 1972, he was so popular that his students wanted to honor him with a present. Giamatti told them he wanted a joke gift and they got him a moosehead (from a yard sale), which was ceremoniously hung in the dining hall. As the new master took over, Giamatti told him in a serious tone, "I have only one solemn duty to convey to you. Take care of my moose." Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Giamatti served as President of Yale University from 1977 to 1986. He was the youngest President of the University in its history. He also served on the Board of Trustees of Mount Holyoke College for many years, participating fully despite his Yale and baseball commitments. Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...
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Baseball Giamatti had a lifelong interest in baseball (he was a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan). He 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. Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 4, 8, 9, 27, 42 Name Boston Red Sox (1908–present) Boston Americans (1901-1907) Ballpark Fenway Park (1912–present) Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds (1901-1911) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004...
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League, is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada and the worlds oldest extant professional team sports league. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 8 - Willie McCovey is the only player elected this year to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America, and becomes the 16th player elected in his first year of eligibility. ...
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In baseball, a pitcher may commit a number of illegal motions or actions which constitute a balk. ...
While still serving as National League president, Giamatti suspended Pete Rose for 30 games after Rose shoved umpire Dave Pallone on April 30. Giamatti also suspended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jay Howell, who was caught using pine tar during the National League Championship Series. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Major league affiliations National League (1890–present) West Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 39, 42, 53 Name Los Angeles Dodgers (1958–present) Brooklyn Dodgers (1932-1957) Brooklyn Robins (1914-1931) Brooklyn Dodgers (1911-1912) Brooklyn Superbas (1899-1910), (1913) Brooklyn Grooms...
Jay Canfield Howell was a Major League Baseball player. ...
Pine tar is produced by a process called destructive distillation of the wood from a pine tree. ...
The 1988 National League Championship Series was played between the National League West champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the National League East champion New York Mets. ...
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. Giamatti was commissioner on August 24, 1989 when Pete Rose voluntararily agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball. As reflected in the agreement with Pete Rose, Giamatti was determined to maintain the integrity of the game during his brief commissionership. Ueberroth (front right) watches President Ronald Reagan throw the first pitch prior to a game. ...
September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is currently under construction // This year in baseball Events January 12 - Former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell is the only player elected this year to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America. ...
While at his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Giamatti, a heavy smoker for many years, died suddenly of a massive heart attack at the age of 51, just eight days after banishing Rose and 154 days into his tenure as commissioner. He became the second baseball commissioner to die in office, the first being Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Giamatti was immediately succeeded by his close friend and baseball's first-ever deputy commissioner, Fay Vincent. Map of Marthas Vineyard. ...
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Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...
Kenesaw Mountain Landis Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922, and subsequently as the first commissioner of Major League Baseball. ...
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On October 14, 1989, before Game 1 at the World Series, Giamatti – to whom this World Series was dedicated – was memorialized with a moment of silence. His son threw out the first pitch before the game. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Dates October 14, 1989–October 28, 1989 MVP Dave Stewart (Oakland) Television network ABC Announcers Al Michaels, Tim McCarver, Jim Palmer Umpires Rich Garcia (AL), Paul Runge (NL), Al Clark (AL), Dutch Rennert (NL), Vic Voltaggio (AL), Eric Gregg (NL) The 1989 World Series was played between the Oakland Athletics...
A moment of silence is the expression for a period of silent contemplation, prayer, reflection, or meditation. ...
James Reston, Jr. notes, in his book Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti, that Giamatti suffered from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting peripheral nerves. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, known also as Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN) or Peroneal Muscular Atrophy, is a heterogeneous inherited disorder of nerves (neuropathy) that is characterized by loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation, predominantly in the feet and legs but also in the hands and arms in...
Works - 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 Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti (ed. Kenneth Robson, 1998)
References - James Reston, Jr., Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti (1991)
- Anthony Valerio, A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti: By Him and About Him (1991)
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