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Baseball’s Pete Rose: Gambling Scandal Cost Me $100 Million
Pete Rose says the gambling scandal that got him banned from baseball cost him $100 million.
Major League Baseball icon Pete Rose, focus of a new HBO documentary series, says the gambling scandal that got him banned from the game cost him dearly. At the Q&A moderated by broadcast legend Al Michaels, who called Reds games in the early ‘70s when Rose was a star player, the hits king reiterated that he thinks a ban of over 30 years is long enough. In one non-off color example, he shared an anecdote: “I was at a function a couple of weeks ago and I took questions from the audience and the guy stood up and said, ‘What do you think you’d hit if you were playing today?’ So, I thought for a moment and I said, ‘I don’t know, .180, .185.’ He said, ‘Wow, pitching’s really that good?’ I said, ‘No, you dumbass.
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