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...decision came the day before former Columbia Law School Dean Benno C. Schmidt Jr. took over the reins from Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti, who will become head of baseball's National League...
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...
...amateur free-agent draft to award the New York Yankees a "special pick," G. Frederick Will of University High School in Champaign, Ill. Shopped as a fledgling shortstop, Will in truth is a fully developed columnist, usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer in his 1977 essay "The Green Fields of the Mind...
...bulging man with flashing eyes and a gray goatee, Giamatti has probably muttered "Damn Yankees" once or twice before but favors neither young Joe Hardy nor old Joe Boyd as much as Mr. Applegate. He claims no athletic laurels. "I was the kid in high school who carried water and kept score." But his particular affection for "the fundamental grid, the geometric beauty of baseball" has always been profound. "My first glove was one left behind by an American soldier in Italy." Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian...
...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...