Giamatti, A(ngelo) Bartlett (1938–1989)

US educator and baseball executive. A scholar of Renaissance literature, at age 40 he became the youngest person in 200 years to serve as president of Yale University (1978–86). Long known as a baseball fan, he became president of the National League (1986–89), then took over as commissioner of baseball in April 1989, a position he held for only five months before his untimely death.

He presided over the banishment of Pete Rose from baseball after an investigation into the player's gambling activities. In addition to his scholarly writings, his Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games (1989) eloquently expressed his appreciation of baseball. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.