The online sportsbook Ready 2 Bet had expressed its interest in purchasing Pete Rose 's autographed baseballs, which displays an apology for wagering on baseball. The autographed baseballs would be offered to the betting site customers as a loyalty reward at the end of the current baseball season.
According to Pete Rose agent, Warrent Greene, Rose did sign on the baseball but as a present for his friends and he never meant them to be sold. The baseball displays Roses autograph under a printed apology, which says: Im sorry I bet on baseball. According to Ready 2 Bet representative, Warren Russel, the online sportsbook intends to purchase all 30 autographed baseball and to award them to their customers.
Pete Rose was banned from professional baseball for lifetime after being accused of gambling in 1989. Only in 2004, when Roses autobiography was published, he admitted that he was placing wagers on baseball while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
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