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...This message isn't lost on the Braves, who released a statement distancing themselves from the pitcher and said they'll later review what action to take. A similar statement was made by league commissioner Bud Selig. Rocker's own pitching coach, Leo Mazzone, went as far as to say, "Something's going to go wrong now with his career. And you watch it, it'll end up going straight down the tubes...
Rose, who last week launched a new campaign to be reinstated into baseball, is hoping those mental film clips will outweigh in fans' minds--and, more important, in that of baseball commissioner Bud Selig--the gambling allegations that resulted in his banishment from the sport in 1989. He claims to have evidence refuting charges that he bet on baseball, specifically on the Cincinnati Reds team he managed from 1984 to 1989. He says his mission is twofold: to get elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, from which he is now barred, and to once again manage a big-league...
...DiMaggio, one of the best-loved players in the history of the national pastime, is dead. Tributes to the Yankee Clipper, who in his time won the hearts of a generation of Americans, have poured in from across the country. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig hailed DiMaggio as "the personification of grace, class and dignity on the baseball diamond." Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, eulogizing DiMaggio, called him "the glory of a time that we will not see again." President Clinton, in a statement, said, "this son of Italian immigrants gave every American something to believe...
...first movie blockbuster, The Birth of a Nation. Now ready to produce his own pictures, he inveigled a popular actress, Anita Stewart, into breaking her contract with Vitagraph, and in 1918-19 starred her in a series of teary films at the modest studio leased from the Selig Zoo in downtown Los Angeles, where my father B.P. Schulberg joined him in the now vanished Mayer-Schulberg Studio...
...owners officially made Bud Selig the commissioner, which shows at least a minimal concern for the future of the sport. And baseball is as talent rich as ever...