as posted at
SaveTheEastEnd.org, a committee monitoring the progress of a proposed Shinnecock Indian casino resort on Long Island in The Hamptons:
A Gambling Double Standard? 
"Pete Rose cannot enter the Baseball Hall of Fame since he bet on baseball games. In retirement, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays couldn't associate with their ex-teams while working for casinos. Yet, baseball permits Michael Ilitch to own the Detroit Tigers and 
his wife, Marian, to own a 25 percent stake in the MotorCity Casino. What's wrong with this picture? The incongruity surfaces again in light of revelations last week that Marian Ilitch tried to buy a controlling interest in MotorCity, according to a new lawsuit filed against Ilitch by minority partners in the casino. Major League Baseball apparently couldn't care less. The fantasy is that Mike Ilitch bought the Tigers alone in 1992, even though he and Marian have been partners in their other business dealings, from their pizza business four decades ago to their joint ownership of the Detroit Red Wings. Apparently, nobody but Commissioner Bud Selig accepts an Ilitch rewriting of history that insists Marian never had a thing to do with the Tigers. But it's hard to sound credible when she was listed as an owner with Mike in Tigers media guides between 1993 and 1996." (Crain's Detroit Business, 2.21.05)
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