Word: giamatti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actually, that's just what the fundraising effort needs---celebrity spokespeople. Derek Bok is a big name in the academia, but he's no Bart Giamatti. Think of all of the money that a real star could generate. Look at Bill Cosby sucking in millions for Temple University. Maybe we could negotiate a deal with America's second best Dad, Michael Gross, from "Family Ties." I'm sure that he isn't doing much these days...
...twist of fate is worth savoring, in part, because it happened to William Bennett. But, beyond personalities, Bennett's fate seems so quirky simply because of the way it juxtaposes elite culture with popular culture. That incongruity itself is funny, the same way the very existence of A. Bartlett Giamatti--a scholarly baseball commissioner--struck us as funny...
...Rose saga took a strange twist when baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died from a heart attack eight days later. Giamatti was set to make his mark on the game before Rose's situation became a top priority for the former president of Yale...
...first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from a former Ivy League classics scholar like Giamatti...
...received a 30-day suspension in 1988. Criticism in the press about the friends in thick gold chains and diamond pinky rings who placed wagers for a living did not faze him. Even now, Rose gives little outward sign that what happened has engendered self-doubt. The night before Giamatti's announcement, he was hawking autographed baseballs on Cable Value Network at $39.94 a throw and selling uniforms with his old No. 14 on them, the same number he used with his bookie...