Relatively recent--within the last 25 years, anyhow.
All right, this is the proposition: in the late 1980s, Bart Giamatti, educator and renaissance man in addition to passionate baseball fan, held the post of commissioner. A truly literate man with a sense of humor, he might well have been the best commissioner the game ever had--had it not been for his untimely/early death in 1989.
So let's suppose that within a routine physical exam, Giamatti's cardiac problems were uncovered and addressed, such that he did not die in 1989 but continued on for another ten or fifteen years, easily. How does that affect the history of the game, particularly the steroid revolution of the late 1990s?
All right, this is the proposition: in the late 1980s, Bart Giamatti, educator and renaissance man in addition to passionate baseball fan, held the post of commissioner. A truly literate man with a sense of humor, he might well have been the best commissioner the game ever had--had it not been for his untimely/early death in 1989.
So let's suppose that within a routine physical exam, Giamatti's cardiac problems were uncovered and addressed, such that he did not die in 1989 but continued on for another ten or fifteen years, easily. How does that affect the history of the game, particularly the steroid revolution of the late 1990s?
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