Word: giamatti
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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...
...moment, Rose has managed to delay a disciplinary hearing at which Giamatti could suspend him from baseball for a year (if he was found to have bet on any games at all) or for life (if he bet on his own team -- even to win). Norbert A. Nadel, a judge of Ohio's Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, opened last week by issuing a temporary restraining order barring Giamatti from holding the hearing, which had been scheduled for Monday. In what many critics denounced as a hometown ruling by a judge soon up for re- election, Nadel declared that...
Under orders from the Ohio Supreme Court, Nadel reluctantly made public the 225-page investigative report to Giamatti prepared by John Dowd, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney. Dowd's case is somewhat weakened because it depends heavily on the testimony of Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, two convicted felons. But Dowd insisted that their stories were corroborated by other witnesses, by tape recordings, by records of Rose's telephone calls and, most important, by betting sheets that a retired FBI expert judged to be in Rose's handwriting. Rose said he could not identify them...
Robert G. Stachler, Rose's advocate during the hearings, said, "If there is one American institution that the public expects to adhere to the concept of fair play, that institution is major-league baseball. All we're looking for is a level playing field." Because the controversial Giamatti letter predated Dowd's interview with Rose, let alone Giamatti's hearing (originally scheduled for May 25), Stachler argued that Rose had already been "found in effect guilty." The captain of baseball's squad of attorneys, Louis Hoynes, talked about a commissioner with two hats. He said Giamatti was wearing his "investigator...