{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Halls of Mediocrity","title":"More Hits Than Anyone in History. He Bet on His Own Team. Pete Rose. | HoM Ep. 10","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4538,"description":"He has more hits than anyone who ever played Major League Baseball. He holds the record for games played. He played All-Star games at five different positions. He was the core of the Big Red Machine. He helped the Phillies win a World Series at age 39. His similarity scores read like the Hall of Fame wing — Ty Cobb, Robin Yount, George Brett, Derek Jeter. By the numbers, Pete Rose is not a Hall of Fame debate. He's a first-ballot certainty.\n \nHe is not in the Hall of Fame.\n \nPete Rose bet on baseball. He bet on the Cincinnati Reds — his own team — during the 1985, 1986, and 1987 seasons. Phone records showed him calling bookies from his office inside Riverfront Stadium, 25 minutes before first pitch. A 225-page investigation concluded he placed at least 52 separate bets on Reds games within a single three-month window. In August 1989, Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned him for life. Giamatti died eight days later.\n \nThen Pete Rose lied about it for fifteen years.\n \nHe denied betting on baseball at all. Denied associating with the people who placed his bets. Denied betting as a player. When he finally admitted it in his 2004 autobiography, he admitted only to betting as a manager — not as a player. In 2015, a seized notebook from one of his associates showed he had also bet while still playing. Every time he gave an inch, the facts gave a foot.\n \nAnd then there are the other allegations. In 2015, a sworn statement surfaced from a woman alleging a sexual relationship with Rose began when she was 14 or 15 in 1973. Rose acknowledged the relationship but claimed he believed she was 16, Ohio's age of consent. No charges were possible — the statute of limitations had long since expired. The Phillies canceled a planned Wall of Fame induction.\n \nPete Rose died on September 30, 2024, at age 83, still on the permanently ineligible list. On May 13, 2025, Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled the lifetime ban applied only to the living — clearing the path for Rose's Hall of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7Y3VHU5yAhVzoaJqrkUKYWSsaVjM8YVkiBE-JzqrKWw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMjNk/NjJkYTExNWM0ZDA2/YTE3YzQ4NzAwNzY0/NDE4Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}