Posted on 08/10/2005 7:10:39 AM PDT by JZelle
CHICAGO | John Dowd, the Washington-based attorney who brought down Pete Rose with his investigation of Rose's baseball gambling, isn't thrilled with baseball's leadership. Tools
In an e-mail and phone interview with the Dayton Daily News, Dowd blames baseball's upper management, commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Don Fehr, in particular, for the game's steroids mess.
"Commissioners have to be tough to maintain order in a game that is so vulnerable to the criminal element that seems to corrupt and compromise this national treasure," Dowd said.
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