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A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner
Also known as: Angelo Bartlett Giamatti
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American culture
- In United States: Sports
…fatuous—onetime Major League Baseball commissioner Bartlett Giamatti wrote a book called Take Time for Paradise, finding in baseball a powerful metaphor for the time before the Fall. But the myths of baseball remain powerful even when they are not aided, or adulterated, by too-self-conscious appeals to poetry. The rhythm and…
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baseball history
- In baseball: The postwar period
Kuhn (1969–84), Peter Ueberroth (1984–89), A. Bartlett Giamatti (1989), Fay Vincent (1989–92), and Allan H. (“Bud”) Selig.
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Pete Rose scandal
- In Pete Rose
…but in August 1989 Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned him from Major League Baseball for life as a consequence of the investigation. This ruling made Rose ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1990 Rose was fined \$50,000 and forced to serve five months in federal prison for filing…
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