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Pete Rose's gambling scandal, explained: Why MLB's hits king is banned for betting on baseball
Edward Sutelan 9 minutes ago • 7:31 pm EDT
Pete Rose is MLB's hits king — and it's possible he will hold that title for the rest of time.
No active player in Major League Baseball has 3,000 hits. Just two players who played in the 2000s came within even 1,000 hits of Rose's final tally, and both had to play 20-plus seasons to do so.
Yet Rose won't be found on a plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame. His omission has nothing to do with performance-enhancing drugs, which have cost players including Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. He, unlike other questionable omissions from Cooperstown, has never even had the chance to appear on a Hall of Fame ballot.
On Monday, TMZ reported that Rose has died at age 83.
Rose was banned from baseball back in 1986 after agreeing with the commissioner to accept a permanent ban from the sport's highest level.
That does not necessarily keep him from the Hall of Fame, as the board in Cooperstown could have him posthumously appear on a ballot. However, over the past few decades, Major League Baseball kept him permanently ineligible to return, and the Hall kept him from the chance to be enshrined.
Before his death, Rose appeared resigned to the fact that he would not be reinstated in the past, particularly after his 2022 case was denied by commissioner Rob Manfred.
“I’ve been suspended over 30 years. That’s a long time to be suspended for betting on your own team to win,” said Rose, per Forbes. “And I was wrong. But that mistake was made. Time usually heals everything. It seems like it does in baseball, except when you talk about the Pete Rose case.”
Why was Rose banned from baseball? Here's what you need to know.
What did Pete Rose do?
Rose started his MLB career with the Reds in 1963, and he played in Cincinnati through 1978.
After stints with the Phillies and the Expos, he returned to Cincinnati midway through the 1984 season as a player-manager. He held that post through the 1986 season, when he announced his retirement as a player and shifted his focus to being the full-time manager of the team.
In 1989, Rose came under scrutiny by the league for allegations over placing bets on baseball after several betting slips belonging to Rose were found in an Ohio restaurant. A Sports Illustrated report connected the owner of the restaurant, Ron Peters, and one of Rose's friends, Paul Janszen, as both having run bets for Rose. Jaszen claimed Rose would signal bets to him from the dugout during games, which Rose called ridiculous.
Asked in March about the reports, Rose refused to deny outright betting on baseball, saying only that he would later have a chance to provide his side of the story. In April 1989, Giamatti became the commissioner and opened an official investigation into Rose, hiring John Dowd to handle the investigation.
Dowd spoke with bookmakers and other runners claiming to be associated with Rose. Among those was Janszen, who detailed much of Rose's gambling network, including noting Rose lost $450,000 in a three-month span in 1987. Janszen claimed Rose said he would consider throwing a game if a large enough bet was placed on it, and said he'd check with managers before games to ask about the health of opposing players before placing bets on their teams.
"He would talk about his gambling in front of a lot of people. And his answer for that always was, 'They can't get me,'" Janszen said. "He put himself above everything. 'They can't get me,' he'd say. 'What have they got? What are they going to prove? How are they going to prove it?'"
There were documents submitted to Dowd that included detailed evidence of bets placed by Rose. In his depositions, Rose denied ever betting on baseball and blasted those who claimed otherwise, saying they didn't have "any credibility." Rose called many of them criminals.
"Pete Rose testified that he was ignorant of the activities of his companions," Dowd said in the report. "His ignorance of their criminal activities allows Rose to use their young men for his own purposes and if they are caught, claim they are not credible."
Dowd said he found Janszen's testimony to be "worthy of belief" when it was paired with matching testimony of others, betting sheets, Jaszens' records and other recorded phone records and conversations.
Rose denied everything and filed a lawsuit to halt the hearing with Giamatti. The lawsuit — filed in Ohio's Hamilton County, home county of the Reds — was successful, and a temporary restraining order was placed to delay Rose's hearing with Giamatti. Giamatti successfully removed the case from federal court, and to avoid further court battles, Rose and Giamatti entered settlement agreements.
More:
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/pete-rose-gambling-scandal-mlb-hits-record-banned-betting/bef86ec38adf1cb165801853
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