Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti suspended Rose for 30 days, which was the longest suspension ever levied for an on-field incident involving a manager.

Amid reports that he had bet on baseball, Rose was questioned in February 1989 by outgoing commissioner Peter Ueberroth and his replacement, Bart Giamatti.

However, three days after Giamatti became Commissioner, lawyer John M. Dowd was retained to investigate these charges against Rose.

This production was the Broadway debut of Paul Giamatti, who played Ezra Chater.

James was a critic of the Dowd Report, which was an investigation ( commissioned by baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti ) on the gambling activities of Pete Rose.

The film was directed by Miloš Forman and also features Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti and Danny DeVito.

* A. Bartlett Giamatti ( 1938 – 1989 ) was the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University.

Angelo Bartlett " Bart " Giamatti (; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989 ) was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Giamatti was born in Boston and grew up in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Claybaugh Walton ( Smith College ' 35 ) and Valentine John Giamatti.

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Giamatti told them he wanted a joke gift and they got him a moosehead ( from a yard sale ), which was ceremoniously hung in the dining hall.

Giamatti was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.

Giamatti had a lifelong interest in baseball ( he was a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan ).

Later that year, Giamatti also suspended Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jay Howell, who was caught using pine tar during the National League Championship Series.

Giamatti, whose tough dealing with Yale's union favorably impressed Major League Baseball owners, was unanimously elected to succeed Peter Ueberroth as commissioner on September 8,.

On October 14, 1989, before Game 1 at the World Series, Giamatti — to whom this World Series was dedicated — was memorialized with a moment of silence.

" Bart " Giamatti was 1992 posthum member of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.

Giamatti was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and is the son of Toni Marilyn ( Smith ) and former Yale University president and Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, and older brother of Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Giamatti.

The 2011 film Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti is set at New Providence High School, having been written by Thomas McCarthy and Joe Tiboni, two former students at the school.

Determined to maintain the integrity of the game, on August 24,, Giamatti prevailed upon Pete Rose to agree voluntarily to remain permanently ineligible to play baseball.

Paul Giamatti is to play Dick.

Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon before earning lead roles in several projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Illusionist, John Adams, Cold Souls, Barney's Version, and Win Win.

Giamatti began to earn critical acclaim after his lead role in the 2003 film American Splendor.

Giamatti started his career on the soap opera One Life to Live, but is likely best known for his series regular role on the CBS drama series Judging Amy, where he played the title character's older brother Peter Grey throughout the series ' six season run.

In his role as Special Counsel to the Commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti, he produced the Dowd Report, which detailed Rose's betting on baseball games in the 1980s, including teams Rose was managing at the time.

The role eventually went to Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, who also became the Commissioner of baseball in 1989.

On July 10, 1994, Michael Greif, in conjunction with La Jolla Playhouse in California, put up the West Coast premiere with Paul Giamatti in the role of Camille.

Also that year, Banks had a small role in the Christmas comedy film Fred Claus, co-starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti.

Following the commercial success of Sideways, Giamatti appeared in Cinderella Man, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

He had a hit with the 2002 release Big Fat Liar, which teamed him with teen actress Amanda Bynes as a pair of students seeking revenge on a sleazy movie producer ( played by Paul Giamatti ).

In 2011, he was part of a medieval epic, Ironclad, which also starred James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti, as the ineffectual Reginald de Cornhill, castellan of Rochester castle.

" To which Giamatti agrees: " Nothing could be more pretentious.

Many of these conflicts were dramatized in Stern's autobiographical book and film Private Parts which included an amusing scene where he is instructed by Metheny ( fictionalized for the film as Kenny Rushton, with a nickname change to " Pig Vomit ", and played by Paul Giamatti ) on the preferred " W-ehhNNN-B-C " pronunciation of the station's call letters.

Giamatti was active in the undergraduate theater scene, working alongside actors Ron Livingston and Edward Norton, who were also Yale students.

Facing serious charges, suspended from the force and rejected by his friends and colleagues, including Roenick's widow, a frustrated Roman storms into Niebaum's office and, in the ensuing chaos, takes Niebaum and several others hostage, including Niebaum's administrative assistant Maggie ( Siobhan Fallon ), police commander Grant Frost ( Ron Rifkin ), and two-bit con man Rudy Timmons ( Paul Giamatti ).

And in a 2009 science fiction movie starring Paul Giamatti, Cold Souls, a mule who is paid to smuggle souls across borders, wears latex fingerprints to frustrate airport security terminals.

His father, Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, was a Yale University professor who later became president of the university and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

The main plot revolves around 14-year-old con artist, Jason Shepherd ( portrayed by Muniz ), whose creative writing assignment is stolen by an arrogant Hollywood producer named Marty Wolf ( portrayed by Giamatti ), who plans to use it to make the fictional film of the same name.

There are brief and early appearances from actors Victor Garber, Paul Giamatti, Jeremy Piven and Eric Stoltz ( whom Crowe has said is in all of his films, and who in this film plays the loudmouthed mime ), and a rare onscreen appearance from director Tim Burton.

Among Strathairn's recent films are: We Are ... Marshall, a 2006 film about the rebirth of Marshall University's football program after the 1970 plane crash that killed most of the team's members ; and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti as a fictionalised version of himself, who enlists a company's services to deep freeze his soul, directed by Sophie Barthes.

** Bart Giamatti Award: given to the “ individual associated with baseball who best exemplifies the compassion demonstrated by the late commissioner .” Generally, it is given to a player involved in a wide range of charity work, benefitting both those involved with the game of baseball and those in the community at large.

The stuffed moose head that graces the college dining hall was named in honor of former college Master Bart ' Shades ' Giamatti, who in 1977 became Yale's youngest president, and in 1989 was named Commissioner of Baseball.

One evening, Cleveland Heep ( Paul Giamatti ), who became a handyman at a Philadelphia apartment complex after his family was murdered, discovers Story ( Bryce Dallas Howard ), a naiad-like character ( called a Narf ) from the Blue World, in his building's pool, immediately rescuing her from an attack by a " Scrunt ," a grass-covered lupine that lies preternaturally flat.

Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said, " Fans of actor Paul Giamatti or of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan may get something out of Lady in the Water, a fractured fairy tale about a water nymph who comes to a Philadelphia apartment house to deliver an important message.