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He served as president of [[Yale University]] from 1977 to 1986.
His life-long interest in baseball came into play when he became President of the National League in 1986, and later Commissioner of Baseball in 1989. One of his main acts was the banishment for life of [[Pete Rose]] from baseball for betting on the sport and associating with known gamblers, detailed in the [[Dowd Report]]. He died rather suddenly of a massive [[heart attack]] at the age of only 51 weeks after banishing Rose.
James Reston, Jr. notes, in his book ''[[Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti]]'', that Giamatti suffered from [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]], an inherited neuromuscular disease affecting peripheral nerves.
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