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...admits having bet on horse races, football and college- and pro-basketball games since 1975. But he vociferously denies the central charge: that in 1985, 1986 and 1987 he bet anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 on baseball games, including those played by his own team, the Cincinnati Reds. He played both infield and outfield for the Reds for more than 18 years and since 1984 has been the team's manager...
This sentiment, of course, is strongest in Cincinnati, where Rose is still a sort of god (Riverfront Stadium, where the Reds play, stands on Pete Rose Way). But those opinions can be heard all over the country. In a TIME/CNN poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, only 30% of the 504 people questioned thought Rose should be suspended from baseball for life if the accusations are correct; 40% said he should be suspended for only one year; and 20% were against any suspension...
...money riding, than others. But to many people this stern morality is as outdated as the 70-year-old scandal that prompted it. In 1919 eight members of the Chicago White Sox were charged with taking money from gamblers to throw the World Series against, yes, the Cincinnati Reds. The rules that Rose is accused of breaking were written in the wake of that scandal. Said a typical telephone caller to a Cincinnati radio talk show last week: "It's not like he's a criminal or anything...
...excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and the music early this week. After four months of husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital...
...first time since baseball's investigation began four months ago, the worst charges imaginable are spoken at a Cincinnati hearing: the Reds manager bet on his own team...