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Old Mon Aug 06, 2007, 12:16am
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Originally Posted by tcblue13
The last Great Commissioner was A. Bartlett Giamatti. Fay Vincent held his own especially on the Pete Rose issue. MLB needs someone who can be the face of the game and who can uphold the dignity of the game. Selig has just been asleep at the wheel for tooooo long.
Agreed, Fay got thrown into the midst of things and he did one hell of a job. Remember it was Giammatti who commissioned Dr. Robert Adair to compile the "Physics of Baseball" which set aside tons of myths. I believe that Adair's books and works transformed baseball, how it is coached and viewed.
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