New documents show Pete Rose bet on baseball games as player

ESPN\’s \”Outside the Lines\” reported Monday that a ledger confiscated in 1989 during the raid on a Rose associate\’s Ohio home confirmed that baseball\’s all-time hits leader had done what he had long denied — bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he was still playing for them.The network reviewed Michael Bertolini\’s notebook, a document that baseball investigators had fought unsuccessfully to obtain and which a court order had kept locked away. The documents showed Rose wagers — up to $5,500 — on various sporting events, including Reds games.

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