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Distraction. JMHO, but the Media machine lumped Jackson in there to distract from people comparing Rose's wrongdoing with all the cokeheads in MLB (see Steve Howe 7Xs, and Yankee Stadium being called "The Halfway House That George Built"….)
Especially from the Umpire "situation", however. ANYthing to distract from the gambling umpires.
What people conveniently forget or simply don’t know is that Pete Rose made an agreement with Bart 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 1981.
ANY baseball fan who remembers watching post seasons saw with their own eyes.
BASEBALL QUIETLY PROMOTES EX-UMP GARCIA By MICHAEL O''KEEFFE PUBLISHED: 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.
Garcia 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