Among other things, the 2015 MLB All-Star Game was to be a celebration of baseball's all-time hit king. Though still banned from baseball for life, Pete Rose had been permitted to be part of the show for the hometown fans at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park.
But so much for that. According to the latest news, now is not a time for celebrating Rose.
On Monday, William Weinbaum and T.J. Quinn of ESPN's Outside the Lines dropped a bombshell. Though it was already common knowledge that Rose had bet on baseball while he was managing the Cincinnati Reds, a crime that earned him his lifetime ban in 1989, new evidence has emerged that Rose gambled on baseball while he was a player as well.