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

by Robson M.D., Kenneth S.; Halberstam, David

• ISBN13: 9781565121928
• ISBN10: 1565121929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-04
• Publisher: Algonquin Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Kenneth S. Robson, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut, a clinical professor at Yale University, his alma mater, and a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	IX
David Halberstam
INTRODUCTION	1	(6)
Kenneth S. Robson
THE GREEN FIELDS OF THE MIND FROM THE Yale Alumni Magazine	7	(8)
TOM SEAVER'S FAREWELL FROM Harper's Magazine	15	(14)
RECALL AS THE SERIES ENDS, THE AFTERNOON OF THE FALL FROM The Hartford Courant	29	(6)
MEN OF BASEBALL, LEND AN EAR FROM The New York Times	35	(6)
BASEBALL AND THE AMERICAN CHARACTER PRESENTED TO The Massachusetts Historical Society	41	(26)
DECISION IN THE APPEAL OF KEVIN GROSS PRESENTED TO The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs	67	(14)
TO SPORTS AND FANS: CLEAN UP YOUR ACT FROM The Boston Globe	81	(6)
BASEBALL AS NARRATIVE FROM Take Time for Paradise	87	(30)
STATEMENT RELEASED TO THE PRESS ON THE PETE ROSE MATTER FROM The New York Times	117