Emory Law alumnus John Dowd has given his alma mater the “Dowd Report,” which documented that baseball slugger Pete Rose bet on the team he managed, the Cincinnati Reds, and caused Rose to agree to a lifetime suspension from the game.

Dowd, a now-retired white-collar criminal defense partner at Akin Gump in Washington, was hired in 1989 by A. Bartlett Giamatti, Major League Baseball’s commissioner at the time, to investigate Rose in response to accusations that he was gambling on the Reds.

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