(Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) Getty ImagesThis is about Pete Rose, gambling and Major League Baseball looking silly, which leads to the question: So why isn’t this guy with more hits than anybody in Cooperstown again? Pete Rose (left) is with Forbes.com national columnist Terence Moore before a speech for Rose at ... [+] Miami (Ohio) University, where Moore is a visiting professor. While weeping, Rose told those gathered he "disrespected the game of baseball.”Rose was Cooperstown worthy right there. Terence Moore (right), then of the Cincinnati Enquirer, interviewed Pete Rose in the home dugout of ... [+] Cincinnati's old Riverfront Stadium in May 1978. Rose talked about his new soft drink called "Pete" for Moore's first story ever as a full-time professional sports journalist.

Source: Forbes September 04, 2020 17:48 UTC