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To: presidio9
Fay Vincent and Bowie Kuhn are very fine men. They are exemplary Catholics. They were just not very good at the task of baseball commissioner. Bart Giamattei was good only as an enemy of Western Civilization while at Yale and he was also a known Red Sox fan. Pete Rose is not a very fine man. He is not likely to be Catholic much less an exemplary one or an exemplary anything religiously if the anything is a positive.

Pete Rose is however, the man who holds the record, recognized or not, for the most base hits of any man who ever played the game in the major leagues. He was a nasty and furious and devastating opponent as any other Yankee fan can tell you who closely watched him lead the nuking of the sainted Billy Martin's Yankees in the 1976 World Series. No lawyer/commissioner, no secular humanist/commissioner, no pathetic used car salesman/ commissioner can take away from Pete Rose his accomplishments on the field.

Assuming that Pete Rose, retired as a player, acting as a manager, bet on games or worst of all bet against his team when he managed that team. Make his ban permanent. That need not require living the lie of making believe that he did not establish records on the field. Nor did Shoeless Joe Jackson deserve to have his records erased because he knew of the Black Sox fix. Banned? Perhaps. Erased? No. History is history and no commissioner has any business rewriting history.

14 posted on 01/02/2004 10:49:16 AM PST by BlackElk (The auto-da-fe is God's chosen way to purge sin from the land.!)
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To: BlackElk
How do you know that Bowie Kuhn and Fay Vincent are outstanding Catholics?

BTW...Rose is NOT Catholic or even religious as far as I knew.

45 posted on 01/02/2004 7:53:23 PM PST by Ann Archy
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