NYT: Rose, in Book, Admits Betting On Baseball

[Wolf Hopper]

Neyer called it: http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...9&postcount=18

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/ne...=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Pete Rose may acknowledge in a new book to be released next week that he bet on baseball, according a story that appeared in Wednesday's New York Times. Whether that admission, or any content in the book, has any impact on his application to be reinstated by Major League Baseball remains to be seen.
The book, "My Prison Without Bars," has a first printing of 500,000 copies and is being published by Rodale Press, which has embargoed the book until Jan. 8, when Rose will begin taking part in promotional interviews, the Times story said.

Bob DuPuy, MLB's president and chief operating officer, reached by telephone on Wednesday, said Commissioner Bud Selig is vacationing in Arizona and that no announcement regarding Rose's status appears near. Rose, 62, was suspended from baseball as a result of gambling on sporting events in 1989 while managing the Cincinnati Reds. Rose denied at the time that he bet on baseball and publicly has maintained that position since.

Man, this is going to help that book sell.

[Wolf Hopper]

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[SmedIndy]

Always a hustler, Pete was. Now he's just hustling the public...

Rob Neyer speculated on this back on Dec 17. Charlie 'hustle' - is hustling....as usual.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/column...rob&id=1688802

[TimmyB]

Geez... this guy'll do anything for a buck.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by TimmyB

Geez... this guy'll do anything for a buck.

Rose ... or Neyer?

[Craig S.]

He'll also be interviewed on this week's Primetime Thursday. The ad shows the interviewer asking the question, "Did you bet on baseball?" - making me think that Rose will likely say, "To find out, buy the book!"

[tyruschen]

Not necessary, Charlie. Hundreds of reviews will tell us this month.

[sweaver]

Fay Vincent weighs in with his opinion, in a New York Times op-ed piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/02/op...partner=GOOGLE
Registration is required, but free. For those not interested in registering, a short quote:

"I also suggest that Mr. Selig pardon all those whose names are still on the ineligible list, including Max Lanier, banned for jumping to the Mexican League to make more money, a Phillies owner who bet on his team and was tossed out and, of course, Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose participation in the Black Sox betting scandal might in today's jurisprudence be excused by his diminished capacity to have known fully what he was doing."

[Skip]

I thought this the more interesting quote, though the idea has been suggested before by others.

Now the issue for Mr. Selig is what to do. I suggest that if Mr. Rose is to be reinstated to full rights in baseball, there should be a two-year period of transition. During this time, I would require Mr. Rose to travel the baseball highway to spell out to youngsters and fans why gambling is a threat to the game and why his decisions as manager were corrupted by betting on one game and not another. The sincerity of his redemption can be tested and he will have done some public service to earn his way back. After all, the issue now is not what is best for Mr. Rose, but what is best for baseball.

Probably off-topic here, but I thought all the Mexican league defectors were reinstated. I'm pretty sure he played in MLB again afterwards, at least according to baseball-reference.com and my tenuous memory of when the Mexican league defections occurred (late 40's?).

[SmedIndy]

I wonder if this book will let Bud off the hook so his "denial" of the BP story will "hold up" and then he can reinstate Pete...

[Wolf Hopper]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseb...ose-book_x.htm

Speculation is swirling that Rose, who's attempting to win reinstatement to baseball from Selig and become eligible for the Hall of Fame, is using the book as a forum to admit the misdeed he has vehemently denied since being barred from baseball in August 1989.

The New York Times, in its Wednesday editions, quoted a baseball official as saying Rose made such an admission when he met with Selig in Milwaukee on Nov. 25, 2002.

DuPuy has been in charge of handling the details of Rose's reinstatement request for Selig and added Thursday that "no agreement had or has been reached on Pete's reinstatement."

There are soooooo many statements around this thing that just do not add up..........

[cubfan33]

The tenses in DuPuy's statement is really odd, but I think I'm watching this just a little too closely. If you ever wondered what Fox Mulder felt like all those years ...

[Wolf Hopper]

Look like the confession is coming for sure............

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...ts/7622273.htm

A person privy to some of the contents of Rose's new book, "My Prison Without Bars,'' which will be released Thursday, says that Rose confesses in the book to having gambled on baseball.

The source, who has been briefed on the book, asked not to be identified.

[Rajah]

that is all.