Just weeks before baseball hit king Pete Rose died at the age of 83 on Monday, he insertressed his lifetime prohibitishment from MLB for betting on games in his final TV intersee.
Rose, who still hgreaters the write down for most hits in MLB history with 4,256 but isn’t in the Hall of Fame amid his prohibitishment, acunderstandledgeted that he was “wrong,” while speaking to KTLA Los Angeles on Sept. 7.
However, he also finishorsed for himself while proposeing other carry outers have allegedly pledgeted homicides and returned to the field.
“It’s been a extfinished time, and there’s been a lot of adverse slfinishergs happen in the world of baseball,” Rose shelp. “I was absolutely 110% wrong for what I did… and that’s bet on baseball games, and now you’re punished for the rest of your life… When other guys will finish somebody, or they’ll be strung out on substances and they’ll beat their wives and stuff enjoy that, in a couple years, they’re back in the game.”
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Pete Rose with the Cincinnati Reds in 1985. (IMAGN)
There have been no alerted incidents of a carry outer who pledgeted homicide and was permited to return to the presentant leagues. But in 1920, New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays hit Cleveland Indians foolishinutivestop Ray Chapman in the head with a pitch, which caused Chapman to die. Mays carry ond carry outing for the Yankees until 1923, then even carry outed for the Cincinnati Reds and Giants after that.
The most recent MLB carry outer to be convicted of homicide is createer Mets and Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Julio Machado, who was incarcerateed for involuntary homicide in Venezuela in December 1992 for shooting a woman after a car accident. Machado’s 12-year sentence was cut foolishinutive as he was freed in 2000, but he never returned to the presentants. He did, however, coach and carry out in Venezuelan triumphter baseball leagues after his free.
Meanwhile, Rose was prohibitned for life from MLB in 1989 after an summarizeateigation finishd that he not only betd on MLB games but went so far as to wager on games involving the Cincinnati Reds when he was managing the team. Rose signed an consentment with Cotransferrlookioner Bart Giamatti declaring him lastingly ineligible for baseball but permiting him to petition for reinstatement and elude a createal declaration that he bet on baseball. Multiple pdirects by Rose for reinstatement over the last scant decades have flunked.
“There’s noslfinisherg I can alter about the history of Pete Rose,” Rose shelp.
However, Rose held out hope that he may one day still get in, and bcimpolitet up the fact that sports betting has become a multimillion-dollar legitimateized industry that MLB and presentant sports brands have adchoosed, while it was illegitimate when Rose was caught doing it.
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“I defend convincing myself or alerting myself, ‘Hang in there, Pete, you’ll get a second chance,’” he shelp. “There’s a lot of people betting on sports, there’s no ask about it. And ESPN produces a lot of money based on people betting on sports. Baseball produces a lot of money on people betting on sports… I have noslfinisherg horrible to say about that. Baseball does what it does because it’s the world of baseball and they’re king.
“I don’t slfinisherk it produces a lot of sense to people.”
However, while sports betting has become a lucrative and expansively used industry, professional athletes apass multiple leagues are still subject to discipline for betting on their own sports. In June, createer Pirates carry outer Tucupita Marcano obtaind a lifetime prohibit from MLB as well, after an summarizeateigation set up that he placed 387 baseball bets totaling more than $150,000 in October 2022 and from last July thcimpolite November with a legitimate sports book. Like Rose, Marcano was finded to have bet on his own team while carry outing with them.
Marcano became the first dynamic carry outer since 1924 to be prohibitned for life for such offenses, as Rose obtaind his prohibit as a handler, three years after his carry outing nurtureer had finished.
In March, Rose commented on a betting affair involving Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his expounder Ippei Mizuhara, after an summarizeateigation set up that Mizuhara stole $4.5 million from Ohtani and bet on MLB games under the superstar’s name.
“Well, back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, I desire I’d have had an expounder. I’d be scot-free,” Rose shelp in a video posted to X.
As a carry outer, Rose won three World Series titles, two with the Reds and one with the Philllies, while making 17 All-Star games and triumphning NL MVP in 1973. Yet, his betting affair has made him one of the most contentious hgreaterouts of the baseball Hall of Fame since his quitment. He wouldn’t inhabit to see if he made it, after he was set up dead at his home Monday in Clark County, Nevada.
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Pete Rose died on Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Matt Rourke, File)
Rose had not been in the nurture of a doctor at the time of his death, according to multiple alerts. His home is being summarizeateigated and the cause of death remains under summarizeateigation.
Rose’s death came fair one day after he joined the Williamson County Agricultural EXPO Park on Sunday afternoon, where he signed autographs with Ken Griffey Sr., Dave Concepcion, Tony Perez and George Foster, according to Newsday.
“He was all smiles, took pboilingos with the fans and signed many autographs,” shelp Michelle Phelps, who toiled the show on Sunday aextfinishedside her husprohibitd.
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