A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti A. Bartlett Giamatti
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.

Am I supposed to feel joy at watching sacred numbers profaned by a man who brought shame to the sport I love for his own glory and insecurity? Barry Bonds has broken the all-time record with the benefit of a controversial technological revolution in the game, derided by traditionalists: The Maple Baseball Bat. Feb 23, 2013 - The father-son dynamic is not one that works either, Willis's McClane feels like more of a supporting character to Jai Courtney's Jack - not something that anyone wants from a Die Hard film. Nov 3, 2009 - Drew is a controversial figure in Boston, and to a lesser extent, around the league, as he embodies the dichotomy that exists between how two divergent groups of fans and commentators see the game. Bartlett Giamatti, "Tom Seaver's Farewell," Harper's, 1977; republished in A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. €The Green Fields of the Mind ” It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. Bartlett Giamatti's essay “The Green Fields of the Mind“) as well as threads about the upcoming ALCS between New York and Anaheim (or Los Angeles or…wherever) filled with gallows humor. Sep 3, 2013 - This is a point that the late, great philosopher/commissioner of baseball, A. Describes the drama and beauty of the game in an essay called "The Green Fields of the Mind", in which he describes the importance of baseball to him one summer (from a collection of baseball essays called A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. You think Kennesaw Mountain Landis or A. Bartlett Giamatti or even Fay Vincent would have allowed things to get this far? Mar 22, 2014 - From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti argued convincingly in Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games (well worth a read). There were eulogies for the team (a tradition is to post the text of A.