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    Pete Rose was banned for life by the MLB. This is what happened

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    Pete Rose is Major League Baseball’s all-time scoring leader, but chances are you’ll never see it documented in Cooperstown, New York, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

    That’s because Rose was banned for life from the MLB in August 1989 for gambling on baseball.

    A league investigation concluded that Rose, who died Monday at age 83, not only gambled on MLB games, but also bet on games involving the Cincinnati Reds when he managed the team.

    “One of the game’s greatest players has committed numerous acts that have tarnished the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those actions,” A. Bartlett Giamatti, MLB commissioner, said of the decision in 1989 to ban the game. Rose.

    Rose signed an agreement with Giamatti that declared him permanently ineligible to play baseball but allowed him to petition for reinstatement and avoid a formal declaration that he was betting on baseball. Multiple recovery attempts failed.

    The Dowd Report, the result of MLB’s investigation into Rose’s activities, contained alleged gambling records, banking and telephone records and other evidence. The evidence suggested that Rose gambled on baseball and specifically on games involving the Reds in 1985, 1986 and 1987.

    Rose denied gambling on baseball for 15 years. The denials ended in 2004 with the publication of his autobiography ‘My Prison Without Bars.’

    Although Rose insisted he never gambled against the Reds, he wrote that he gambled on baseball four to five times a week, something he later admitted to then-commissioner Bud Selig.

    “My actions, which I thought were benign, call into question the integrity of the game,” Rose wrote. “And there is no excuse for that, but there is also no reason to punish me forever.”

    What did Pete Rose say about gambling when he was banned?

    The day Rose was ruled out of baseball, his feet weren’t quite out the door. He held a press conference at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

    “My life is baseball,” he said. “I hope to be able to play baseball again as soon as possible.”

    He said, “He obviously made some mistakes… but one of the mistakes wasn’t betting on baseball.”

    He was already focused on the Hall of Fame, something he had wanted for years. His 4,256 hits are a record that will probably never be broken.

    “I did my part to get into the Hall of Fame…. “I got all the hits, scored all the points and won all the games,” he said. “I can’t really worry about something I have no control over.”

    As recently as 2023, Rose talked about the possibility of MLB and its commissioner, Rob Manfred, reinstating him.

    “I’m the one who messed up and if (Manfred and MLB) ever decide to give me a second chance, I would understand with open arms,” Rose told Forbes. “Baseball has made a decision about me. I could tell them I’m going to die tomorrow and they wouldn’t change their minds.

    “I have been suspended for more than thirty years. That’s a long time to be suspended when you’re betting on your own team’s victory. And I was wrong. But that mistake was made. Time usually heals everything. It seems like that’s the case in baseball too, except when you’re talking about the Pete Rose case.”

    Manfred could not be convinced.

    In 2023, Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America: “We have always approached the issue of gambling from the position that players and other people in a position to influence the outcome of the game will be subject to a different rules than anyone else in the world.

    “Pete Rose broke rule one in baseball, and the consequences of that are clearly visible in the rule, and we have continued to play by our own rules. It’s just that the rules are different for players. It comes with the responsibility. It comes with the privilege to be a Major League player.”

    What did Pete Rose do after he was banned from gambling?

    Just last month, Rose stood in front of his legendary upright slide statue in Cincinnati, where he was born. It’s the place where he became a baseball legend, but it was no longer his home when he retired.

    Las Vegas is where Rose spent most of his post-baseball life.

    Although never reinstated, Rose remained celebrated and marketable. Rose regularly signed baseballs and other memorabilia and sold personalized videos in 2022.

    It appears that at least some of the proceeds were gambled away.

    In 2018, Pete Rose’s estranged wife alleged that Rose remained a “high-stakes gambler” and repeatedly failed to pay support on time, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY Sports.

    Rose’s second wife, Carol, made the allegations in a filing with Los Angeles Superior Court as part of a divorce case that began in 2011.

    Carol Rose also alleged that the banned baseball star continued to bet large sums of money and owed large sums of money to casinos and the Internal Revenue Service.

    A new HBO docuseries prompted Rose to think about the costs of it all.

    “You need to understand one thing, ladies and gentlemen,” Rose said during a Q&A after the premiere of episode one of “Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose,” according to Deadline. “Gambling cost me a hundred million (dollars). That’s what I would have made in baseball if I hadn’t been suspended.”

    His world extended beyond Las Vegas.

    A post on Rose’s Philadelphia.

    “The #Rose Legacy,” wrote Peter Edward Rose Sr.

    Follow Josh Peter on social media @joshlpeter11

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