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Banned from Baseball

It’s 1989, and the new Commissioner of Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University, Bart Giamatti, and baseball’s reigning Hit King, Pete Rose, engage in professional and legal combat for the soul of America’s Pastime: a titanic battle that will leave Giamatti dead of a heart attack and Rose banished to the perennial purgatory of permanent ineligibility. Giamatti wants Rose’s confession at all costs. Rose wants Giamatti to accept his denials of betting on baseball against the mounting evidence of his guilt.  BANNED FROM BASEBALL tells a human story about baseball’s blue-collar Hit King blinded by a belief in his own invincibility, and the patrician Commissioner of Baseball, blinded by his self-regarding idealism.

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