A bad bet ...When the Great Scorer comes to mark our name, we don't believe He is going to mark against us for plucking the petals off a Rose named Pete. A beautiful ballplayer? Absolutely. A fatally flawed person? Absolutely. He is a confessed gambler, who committed file unpardonable sin of betting on major league baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. . A. Bartlett Giamatti Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was the former President of Yale University, and later, the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball in the United States. , greatest of all the commissioners, collected all the evidence, confronted Rose with it, had him sign a confession A Confession is a short work on questions of religion by Leo Tolstoy. It was first distributed in Russia in 1882. Consisting of autobiographical notes on the development of the author's belief, A Confession , and barred him from baseball. That should have been the end of it--as it was with the Black Sox Scandal Black Sox scandal, episode in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, the American League champions, were banned from baseball in 1921 for having conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. . But with the passage of time, Rose began pitching curves to his brain dead fans. First, he denied betting against Cincinnati. Next, he denied betting on Cincinnati. And, finally, he denied betting on baseball. Enough dumb people began believing him, and a commissioner named Bud Selig Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, Jr. (born July 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was previously the team owner and administrator of the Milwaukee Brewers. turned monkey. He stopped believing any evil, seeing any evil, hearing any evil or reading any evil. He even began talking about allowing Rose to return to baseball. Rose pushed a little too hard. Just hard enough to get the original investigator of the gambling charge to release the facts to the public. Here is the official scorecard on Pete Rose's betting record: "Rose made 388 bets for $852,400 in the first half of the 1987 season, and bet $116,000 on the Reds in 52 games." |
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