TERRIBLE: As Pete Rose made a statement that make his fans unhappy….

Any player, umpire, official of the Club or League, or employee who places a wager of any kind on a baseball game related to which the bettor is required to fulfill their obligations would be permanently disqualified.

– Rule 21, Section (d), subsection (2) of the Major League Baseball Constitution

Is it accurate to say that Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, places bets with you on Reds baseball games?

A: You’re right.

– On April 5, 1989, bookmaker Ron Peters was admitted to MLB special investigator John Dowd.

To many, Pete Rose represents a multitude of attributes. charming anti-hero. Pariah deserving of no such status. A man deserving of another opportunity. a representation of the way baseball should and should not be played now. A betrayer

to the match. A compulsive gambler whose illness claimed his life. spirit lost. Hustle Charlie. Who should be in the Hall of Fame? The hit king.

However, the person who oversaw Rose’s inquiry and conducted in-person interviews with him for two full days now declares that baseball’s all-time hit leader ought never to be permitted to return to the game.

John Dowd, a former special counsel to the baseball commissioner who was sent in to look into those now-famous claims, believes that Rose is the best illustration of why it is so wrong for those involved in the game itself to wager on professional baseball.

In a lengthy interview, Dowd told The Enquirer, “This (gambling) is just such a terrible business… it really does infect the game.”