People Banned Under Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti spent less than six months as Commissioner of Baseball before he died of a heart attack at his Florida mansion.
His death came a mere eight days after banning Pete Rose, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, for life; Rose was investigated in 1989 for his alleged ties to gamblers; when new information on Rose's gambling habits came to light, Giamatti banned Rose. (While president of the National League in 1988, Giamatti had suspended Rose for thirty games for shoving an umpire over during a heated argument.)
However, Giamatti granted Rose one concession: Rose could apply for reinstatement once a year for as long as he lived after ten years. Rose has subsequently applied for reinstatement four times; all four reinstatement requests have been rejected. After years of denial, Rose admitted that "everything" the Dowd Report contained was the complete, unadulterated truth.
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