There’s Barely Room for Sports in Sports Sections These Days
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Not since Bowie Kuhn, the eunuch prince of pomposity, protected baseball from the villainous likes of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle has there been such a champion of the absurd as Bart Giamatti. Does it bother me that Pete Rose possibly bet on his own team? Not half as much as having a commissioner who writes letters of recommendation to judges on behalf of the seamy, self-serving elements of illegal gambling.
TERRENCE S. VINEYS
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