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A Great and Glorious Game
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Paperback: 138 pages Publisher: Algonquin; 1st edition (January 4, 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 1565121929 ISBN-13: 978-1565121928
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Book Description
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.