In a new report from ESPN’s Outside the Lines, there have been documents uncovered that indicate that Pete Rose bet as a player. Rose has consistently denied ever betting on baseball as a player for the last 25 years. Here is part of the OTL report:
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.