A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

Publisher Marketing: With a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball's Renaissance man and its commissioner. In A GREAT AND GLORIOUS GAME, a collection of spirited, incisive essays, Giamatti reflects on the meaning of the game. Baseball, for him, was a metaphor for life. He artfully argues that baseball is much more than an American "pastime." "Baseball is about going home," he wrote, "and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need." And in his powerful 1989 decision to ban Pete Rose from baseball, Giamatti states that no individual is superior to the game itself, just as no individual is superior to our democracy. A GREAT AND GLORIOUS GAME is a thoughtful meditation on baseball, character, and values by one of the most eloquent men in the world of sport. Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1998 pg. 242 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/1998 pg. 72 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/23/1998 pg. 60 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) New York Times 06/28/1998 pg. 18 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1999 pg. 108 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 550 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 716 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 855 (EAN 9781565121928, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Giamatti, A Bartlett A. Bartlett Giamatti, at the time of his death Commissioner of Baseball, was a former professor of English and president of Yale University. Contributor Bio:  Robson, Kenneth Robson is the editor of the Flyfisher's Journal and an honorary life member of the Flyfishers' Club. Contributor Bio:  Halberstam, David David Halberstam is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the bestselling author of The Powers That Be, The Best And the Brightest, and Summer of 49.