The author of Welcome to Funkstown recently attended a lecture by John Dowd, and reprints his notes here. I didn't realize how much Dowd dislikes Bud Selig:

After losing the suit in the courts, Rose’s agent finally agreed to settle. Rose claims that there were negotiations with Giamatti, but Dowd insists that Giamatti only held one position. Throughout the entire discussion, Giamatti always was supporting the permanent ban of Pete Rose from baseball for his actions. Unfortunately, a week after the case was settled (and Rose agreed to the ban), Giamatti died and was replaced by Fay Vincent. For the next fourteen years, Rose constantly tried to drum up public support, and he finally found an ally in the “present stooge” in the Commissioner’s Office.

One of the lasting effects of the Rose case was the way it eliminated some other gambling problems in baseball. Lenny Dykstra, for example, had a gambling problem but only bet on cards. When John Dowd went to speak with him on behalf of Major League Baseball, Dykstra notified him that he had completely stopped gambling solely because Pete Rose was caught. In fact, Gene Orza tried to stop Dykstra from talking, but he was thrown out of the room.

(Hat tip Will Carroll.)