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PEOPLE: Britney's mini-marriage; Depp's new film; Ray Davies gets shot; Q&A with Pete Rose...
...book, My Prison Without Bars, Pete Rose finally admits that he gambled on baseball. He has been barred from the sport for 14 years...
Baseball is a game of errors and redemption. It is a game that keeps track of mistakes and features them as part of the official line score--runs, hits, errors. Pete Rose made the ultimate error by betting on baseball while he was managing the Cincinnati Reds in the late '80s. Although he consistently denied his guilt, he accepted a lifetime ban from the game. For the next 14 years, Rose continued to publicly deny that he had ever bet on baseball. The arrival last week of his new book, in which he finally confessed, stunned the baseball world. Rose...
Rose is a product of our culture. We teach our business moguls, our movie stars and our Pete Roses that the rules of conduct, and even our laws, do not apply to them as they do to the rest of us. During Major League Baseball's investigation of Rose in 1989, one of his lawyers argued to me that "Pete Rose is a national institution. He doesn't think baseball can afford to take...
...about when he was in the dugout. Money is what makes Rose hustle, and he would dearly love to command the big money now available to managers. But how can Commissioner Selig ever trust Rose not to fall back into his old betting ways? I will be astonished if Pete ever puts on a manager's uniform again...