Entries in long-hidden notebook show Pete Rose bet on baseball as player

[joeybee12]

For 26 years, Pete Rose has kept to one story: He never bet on baseball while he was a player.

Yes, he admitted in 2004, after almost 15 years of denials, he had placed bets on baseball, but he insisted it was only as a manager.

But new documents obtained by Outside the Lines indicate Rose bet extensively on baseball -- and on the Cincinnati Reds -- as he racked up the last hits of a record-smashing career in 1986. The documents go beyond the evidence presented in the 1989 Dowd report that led to Rose's banishment and provide the first written record that Rose bet while he was still on the field.

"This does it. This closes the door," said John Dowd, the former federal prosecutor who led MLB's investigation.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13114874/notebook-obtained-lines-shows-pete-rose-bet-baseball-player-1986

Where are all his supporters now?

[KamaAina]

1. Ouch.

That's gotta hurt.

[joeybee12]

2. Final nail in the coffin...

Ends any hope he had...and he probably will lose some of his supporters over this.

[KamaAina]

3. He just did.

Me.

[joeybee12]

4. Oh my...

If he had come clean initially and apologized that would be one thing...but he kept denying and denying.

[Auggie]

7. Still should be in the HOF

Ban him from the game but recognize the performance. It's legit (or rather, as legit as any non-roider).

[Dr. Xavier]

5. Pete Rose made a plea deal with Bart Giamatti and

then he waited until Giamatti had died, to start his campaign to get into the Hall. What a jerk, Rose makes Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemons, and all the other 'roid freaks look like amateurs.

[Auggie]

6. I wouldn't go that far ...

Bonds reigns supreme.

But I am bummed about Rose.

[Dr. Xavier]

9. As a Dodger fan,

I agree with you; however, Rose's campaign to get re-instated after Giamatti died is just incredibly despicable in its own way. And that Rose has supporters in that campaign is a very disturbing fact.

[rsdsharp]

11. I'm not a fan of Rose

but given the fact that Giamatti died eight days after banning Rose, any campaign for reinstatement would have necessarily occurred after the Commissioner's death.

[KamaAina]

8. "The blush is off the Rose."

Said Grandpa the morning after the 44-game hitting streak ended.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. This Is So Not Surprising

I never liked that tool!