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THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a single sentence from baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti still reverberates: "The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed." Those words, which cemented Pete Rose's lifetime ban for gambling on the team he managed, landed like a gavel in August 1989: authoritative, unambiguous, final -- and yet wholly untrue.
Rose was 83 years old when he died on Sept. 30. On Sunday, he was laid to rest after a 14-hour public viewing at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.