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A limited-edition, documentary style podcast - timely and enduring - created and written by Neil Thomas Proto, author of Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America with guest, actor Marcus Bartlett Giamatti, hosted by Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Diane Smith. The August 24, 1989 decision by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to ban Pete Rose from Baseball was the prelude to a broader, Epic Battle to protect Baseball’s authenticity against greed and cheati ...
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Downfall: Baseball’s Public Trust and the Battle for the Game | Episode 2
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Giamatti's principled view of Baseball’s public duty to the fans and to America; a fuller exploration of Baseball’s embrace of the “Mark Zuckerberg Mentality” that ensures a place for the “snakes in the garden,” including through the guidance revealed by movies, “Moneyball,” “The Social Network,” and “The Natural;” and the duty of those who remain …
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Episode One: Downfall: The Threat and the Strategy
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Giamatti’s confrontation with Rose and those who lent credence to the Big Lie; his moral, ethical and practical imperatives about Baseball’s authenticity, affirmed earlier in his life and by others; his confrontation with his predecessor Peter Ueberroth; the strategic foundation for the Epical Battle he believed necessary to confront cheating, gree…
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Commissioner Bart Giamatti’s decision and Rose’s lie, executed in collusion with others; the Epical Battle for Baseball’s authenticity is set. Relying on Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti’s actual words and those read by his actor son, Marcus, “Downfall” examines Giamatti’s moral, ethical, and historical decision to ban Pete Rose from baseball in 1…
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