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<text id=89TT2331>
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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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