[lbo-talk] Marvin Miller

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 27 21:54:03 PST 2012


A couple of quotes from Marvin Miller on Bart Giamatti that lbotalkers might like. Giamatti was prez of Yale and Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Miller was the most dynamic and successful U.S. labor leader in the last 60 years. He died today at 95.

``Giamatti, I don`t have to tell you, he comes from about the only institution in the country as right wing and arrogant as the baseball owners- namely academia, where notions of due process or cause are completely foreign,`` said Miller.

"Like a Pope who died after just a few weeks in office, Giamatti has almost taken on the aura of sainthood; a philosophic scholar who descended on baseball from some higher level — or at least a higher level than most of the newspaper and magazine writers who quoted his pretentious, overripe prose with awe, without bothering to figure out the content of his precious emissions."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-05-28/sports/8902050406_1_bartlett-giamatti-pete-rose-case-institution

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/bart_giamatti_biography.shtml



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