RE; Pete Rose –
Have seen comments around blasting Bart Giamatti. What people conveniently forget or simply don’t know is that Pete Rose made an agreement with Giamatti to meet with him in a year. Ban was late August of 1989, and Bart died on 9/1/89. Even more, it wasn’t “ROSE” Giamatti was investigating. Giamatti’s investigation was fueled by UMPIRES, Frank Pulli and Rich Garcia, who both received “SECRET” two-year probations back in fucking 1981.
ANY baseball fan watching post seasons in the late ’90s remembers the absolute clusterfucks, which ignited so much controversy, that crap with umpires in general finally hit the fan (TO DISTRACT).
BASEBALL QUIETLY PROMOTES EX-UMP GARCIA April 12, 2002 at 12:00 a.m
Rich Garcia, a former American League umpire who spent two years on probation for gambling with bookmakers, has been hired as an umpiring supervisor by Major League Baseball. The Daily News reported last month that Garcia and former NL ump Frank Pulli, hired two years ago as a supervisor, were disciplined for placing bets with bookies after a 1989 investigation by former commissioner Fay Vincent, who assigned attorney John Dowd to also investigate Yankee coach Don Zimmer and former Reds great Pete Rose for gambling. Rose was banned for life, while Zimmer served one year of probation in 1989.
Garcia was hired on April 1, according to MLB executive vice president Sandy Alderson, but baseball did not announce the hiring. Alderson said yesterday that while Garcia had made mistakes in the past, his performance as an umpire has been impeccable….
Vincent told The News last month that Garcia and Pulli bet on sports with bookies, but that there was no proof they bet on baseball. Vincent did not make the discipline public, he said, because “it didn’t seem to serve any purpose. (THEY WERE MEETING BOOKIES IN MLB PARKING LOTS AFTER THE GAMES, ARTICLE STATING AS MUCH HAS LONG BEEN SCRUBBED.)
The investigations of Zimmer and Rose were widely reported and have been confirmed by baseball. Former commissioner Bowie Kuhn told The News last month that he considered gambling by umpires more serious than gambling by players or coaches. “Their role is different from everybody else,” he said. “They are comparable to the administrators of the game. They have the same responsibility as the commissioner, or under the old system, the league presidents, to protect the game.
Garcia was one of 22 umpires left unemployed in a failed mass resignation strategy orchestrated by former union leader Richie Phillips in 1999.
VID1Garcia played a central role in Yankee history: He was the umpire who awarded Derek Jeter a home run in the 1996 ALCS, when 12-year-old fan Jeffrey Maier leaned over the right-field fence and caught the ball before Baltimore outfielder Tony Tarasco could get it. https://archive.md/NFnYw
VID2: LOOK at TINO’s Grand Slam, too. Was fucking strike three, as evidenced by the actual pitch, AND immediate reactions of Yankee fans sitting behind the plate.
NAILS!! Spill it, Buddy! How you had dirt on the UMPS, and 1993 balls & strike calls!! C’mon, Nails!! Be the Jose Canseco for GAMBLING!!
Originally Published: March 19, 1991 Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Lenny Dykstra doesn’t know what baseball commissioner Fay Vincent has in store for him, but the probation for illegal gambling reported by a newspaper sounded fine.“No comment,” was Dykstra’s response to a Philadelphia Daily News report that Vincent had decided to place him on probation for one year. If Dykstra doesn’t […] https://archive.is/Uzt0J (Need subscrip to read whole thing) Former Commissioner Warren Giles’ son, Bill giles, was the Phillies’ OWNER.