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The Dugout: Pete Rose's Terrible Life

To this generation he has become a symbol for how George Michael and Maeby got to second base, but before that he was Pete Rose, a Hall of Famer by every possible definition of the word. Between that, he got banned from baseball for betting on it and became an old codger desperately trying to get back in the sport's good...

Ex-Commissioner Fay Vincent Slams Bud Selig for Pete Rose Decision

Bud Selig's decision to allow the Cincinnati Reds to honor Pete Rose at their ballpark for setting the all-time hits record 25 years later has former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent fuming. Vincent, in an e-mail to the New York Post, ripped Selig for once again allowing the conditions of Rose's lifetime ban...

The Donald Sterling Rule: All Bad Deeds Go Unpunished

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives by his own rules. And the only one that matters, apparently, is this: all bad deeds go unpunished. Over the last six years, nearly two dozen L.A. residents have sued Sterling for engaging in racist housing practices and Jim Crow-style bigotry. In a 2003 deposition, the...

Hey Pete Rose Apologists, Save It

People, people, people. How many times do we need to go over this? It seems that every time we have another steroids revelation and talk turns to how that affects the player's Hall of Fame qualifications, all of the Pete Rose people come out of the woodwork to say that Pete should get in if the Steroids Guys are in.A whole...

Hey Bud, Why Stop With Hank Aaron's Home Run Record?

I don't know if you know this or not, but since he's commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig seems to think this gives him special privileges that nobody else in America is entitled to. Why, as commissioner of baseball he's not bound by the ex post facto laws of our society, which means he's allowed to suspend...

Background on fay vincent

Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. (born May 29, 1938) is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992.

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