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You do not absolve Pete Rose of his real enough sins (and if you think baseball's Hall of Fame has a small pocketful of shady characters and even criminal ones, you certainly have not had a look at the NFL lately), when you say that baseball government since Giamatti's death has behaved toward him in ways we would condemn if we saw the government government behaving likewise toward an ordinary citizen.

These folks apparently haven't been reading the news. Pete Rose was treated no worse than Billy Dale was. Did this guy condemn the Clinton administration for its treatment of Billy Dale? I hope so.

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Bill

[BluesDuke]

Did this guy condemn the Clinton administration for its treatment of Billy Dale? I hope so.

I am "this guy" (I am the author of the essay which opens this thread; I happen to be a professional writer) and yes, I was quite vocal - on this forum and a couple of others, when the occasion arose - in condemning the Clinton Administration's treatment of Billy Dale. Come to think of it, I was usually pretty vocal in condemning the Clinton Administration, period. But precisely what Billy Dale's treatment by the Clintonistas has to do with Pete Rose's by Giamatti's successors (it wasn't, for one thing, Giamatti or his successors who got Pete Rose in trouble with the tax man, nor did Pete Rose's trouble with the tax man involve his gambling) escapes me for the moment...