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Gambling Scandals in Sports

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Pete Rose was a gambling man, and that is why he is still banned from baseball. In 1989, commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti said, ''The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed. Let no one think it did not hurt baseball.'' Rose, in years following his ban, would proclaim innocence, but in 2004 he finally admitted to betting on games in My Prison Without Bars, for which he was given a million dollar advance.
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