Baseball, late commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti once wrote, was 'designed to break your heart.'
The man who famously levied Pete Rose's permanent ban from the game knew what he was talking about from first-hand experience. A lifelong Red Sox fan during Boston's 86-year championship dry spell, the father of actor Paul Giamatti was keenly aware of the sport's annual progression from hope to despair.
'You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops,' Giamatti, the 19th President of Yale University, wrote in 'Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games.'
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