Downfall

Neil Thomas Proto

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 cheating that Giamatti anticipated would occur. He laid out those principles and strategy, first while president of Yale in 1986, then in lectures at the University of Mi...

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Downfall

Episodes (3)

Sep 3, 2021 Downfall: Baseball’s Public Trust and the Battle for the Game | Episode 2
Aug 19, 2021 Episode One: Downfall: The Threat and the Strategy
Aug 19, 2021 Downfall: The Prelude

Downfall

Sep 3, 2021
41 minutes
57 MB

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 - the Hall of Fame, the Little League, the Sportswriters, and the Umpires - to do Epic Battle to preserve the authenticity of the game. Relying on Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti’s actual words and those read by his actor son, Marcus, “Downfall” exa...

Downfall

Downfall: Baseball’s Public Trust and the Battle for the Game | Episode 2

Neil Thomas Proto

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