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...remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn't bet on them that particular day? "There had not been such grave allegations since the time of [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis," said then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989, referring to the commissioner who cleaned up the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Confronted with this evidence, Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from the sport but didn't specifically admit to betting on baseball. Implicit in the agreement, according to former commissioner Fay Vincent and others convinced that...
Rose says he has lined up handwriting and fingerprint experts to refute baseball's experts, and he has taken to casting aspersions on John Dowd, the special investigator appointed by Giamatti who compiled the original evidence. Dowd is unmoved. "The evidence against him is overwhelming. We have betting slips, records from bookmakers and 113 witnesses...
...there have been more good ones too. One of the best is from A. Bartlett Giamatti, who was Commissioner of Baseball back when there was still a Commissioner of Baseball. "Baseball is about going home," Giamatti wrote, "and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need...
...avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent. "Any commissioner with any strength is going to cause trouble for them." Fans view a charismatic commissioner, like the late Bart Giamatti, as their tribune, the only person in the game who stands for something more than economic self- interest. But many owners just don't get it. Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins, asks with puzzlement, "Why does finding a commissioner get more public attention than choosing the chairman...
Vincent was "requested to resign" because, according to his contract, the commissioner cannot have his powers diluted, his salary cut or his position terminated. Every employee should have such job security. To be sure, Vincent -- who succeeded his friend, the late Bartlett Giamatti, as the sport's chief arbiter, lobbyist and cheerleader -- does work for the owners. They hired him; they pay his $650,000 a year. But under the Major League Agreement, he has the authority to act "in the best interests of baseball." Which, if you have a high opinion of the sport, the office and yourself...