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Originally Posted by mirrf

Gonna bump this thread now that there is evidence that Pete Rose bet on baseball games that he played in, not just managed. Does this change anybodies mind?

I have to admit, this does change my mind. I was pretty much in the "4200+ hits belongs, let bygones be bygones" camp for 10 years. But listening to the increased coverage has really changed my mind. I think I was really just ignorant to the facts behind the situation. Here's a couple of the things I listened to that really informed me:

Buster Olney had the reporter that broke the additional proof on the ESPN Baseball Tonight podcast yesterday: Another Thorn - ESPN

John Dowd (original Rose investigator) on the Jim Rome Show: John Dowd « The Jim Rome Show

I think the real key is that Rose was in debt to organized crime while acting as a player and a manager. You just can't forgive creating that type of conflict of interest in the game.