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6 quotes found searching on Position: 7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
You will lose a country if you impose autumn on a people who need and deserve a summer without yet another denial.
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again and it blossoms in summer, filling the afternoons and evenings and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it. Rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
When I was seven years old, my father took me to Fenway Park for the first time, and as I grew up I knew that as a building it was on the level with Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's Capitol, the Czar's Winter Palace and the Louvre. Except, of course, that it was better than all those inconsequential places.
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
Contributed by: Casey Kane
It is a ridiculous way to negotiate a contract and trivializes the whole process and demeans the participants. I'm sorry anyone thought it was a good idea. I look forward to talking with Mrs. Schott about it.
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
Whether in a real city or not, when we enter that simulacrum of a city...the ballpark...and we have successfully, usually in a crowd, negotiated the thoroughfares of this special, set-aside city, past the portals, guarded by those who check our fitness and take the special token of admission, past the sellers of food, and vendors of programs, who make their markets and cry their news, and after we ascend the ramp or go through the tunnel and enter the inner core of the little city, we often are struck, at least I am, by the suddenness and fullness of the vision there presented: a green expanse, complete and coherent, shimmering, carefully tended, a garden.
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
"Take Time For Paradise: Americans And Their Games"
One thing I remember about him is the way he dusted off the plate. He'd dust it clean and then he'd make this clear outline around the perimeter of the plate, with his brush. Nobody else did that.
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti
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7th Commissioner of Baseball, in 1989
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