Word: giamatti
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Without a professor since Casey Stengel, baseball last week persuaded the president of Yale University, A. Bartlett ("Hit them where they aren't") Giamatti, to jump to the National League. As the commissioner of baseball is a reformed travel agent, and the president of the American League is a retired cardiologist, the choice of an English teacher to replace Chub Feeney made a surprising kind of sense, though Chub has never hurried away from a press conference to deliver a lecture on Machiavelli...
...National League president, Giamatti will be responsible for scheduling games, hiring umpires and making their schedules, and ensuring that sales of franchises conform to league regulations...
...current presidents of both leagues said in interviews this week that Giamatti was a quality draft pick...
...seems to me like a very fine choice," said Charles S. ("Chub") Feeney, whom Giamatti will succeed in the fall. "He's highly intelligent and loves baseball," said Feeney, a Dartmouth alumnus who as General Manager of the New York Giants helped orchestrate the team's move to San Fransisco...
...think [Giamatti] was an excellent choice," said American League President Dr. Robert W. ("Bobby") Brown. "While he may not have a lot of practical knowledge, his super-intelligence and devotion to the game should carry him through," said Brown, who played for the New York Yankees and practiced cardiology before being selected to head the league...