“An essential element of a professional sport is the public's confidence in it's integrity

I just so happened to read about George Steinbrenner's suspension in the 70s and the article had this to say:

“An essential element of a professional team sport,” the commissioner said, “is the public's confidence in its integrity. If the public does not believe that a sport is honest, it would be impossible for the sport to succeed. Attempting to influence employees to behave dishonestly is the kind of misconduct which, if ignored by baseball, would undermine the public's confidence in our game.”

How timely.