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...explain his banishment to the kids who love the game. Rose's bargain was the work of lawyers; its contorted logic was utterly devoid of the simplicity and finality that make the game so refreshing. It was a fine-print compromise that at once allowed Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to announce that Rose was banned from baseball for life for betting on his own team -- and Rose, an hour later in Cincinnati, to say Hey, it ain't so. Worse, although the 14 others expelled from baseball over the years never again set foot on a major league diamond...
Compulsive gamblers across the country instantly recognize the pattern of acts alleged in an investigative report to Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and in interviews with Rose's associates: bets on ten to 20 college basketball games at a time, losses of $400,000 to just one bookie in one spring, desperate borrowing to pay the debts, equally desperate searches for new bookmakers to replace those who would no longer extend Rose credit or even take his bets...
...saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and the music early this week. After four months of husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital crime...
CINCINNATI--Pete Rose won in court yesterday when a state judge, saying A. Bartlett Giamatti had "prejudged" the case, blocked the baseball commissioner from holding a hearing on evidence that the Cincinnati Reds manager bet on his team...
Stevie Wonder, however, is not the real problem. The problem is the judgment of the Bartlett's editors, who have put together a book which one hopes would show cultural progress but instead indicates cultural decay. Who cares if Muhammed Ali said, "I am the greatest?" Lots of other arrogant jerks have also said the same thing, but I don't see any cross-references...