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Sorry, Charlie

     ¹Pete Rose, dubbed "Charlie Hustle" for his fierce competitiveness during a career as baseball's most prolific hitter, continues to hustle off the field.
     ²His latest effort is an autobiography coming out Thursday and a publicity blitz aimed at building public support for overturning lifetime banishment from Major League Baseball for gambling on his own games. ³In excerpts from the book, My Prison Without Bars, and a TV interview, Rose finally admits that his 14 years of denials about gambling were lies. ⁴He now says he did bet on Cincinnati Reds games, four or five times a week, while managing the team in the late 1980s.
     ⁵Rather than express contrition, Rose suggests he should be exempt from rules that apply to every other professional athlete. ⁶And he shows little comprehension of why baseball takes a hard line against gambling, especially when the bettor can affect a game's outcome.
     ⁷Rose's explanation is that he never bet on inside information or let his bets influence his baseball decisions. ⁸"So in my mind, I wasn't corrupt," he writes. ⁹He adds, "I'm sure that I'm supposed to act all sorry now . . . but you see, I'm just not built that way."
     ¹⁰Never mind that gambling on games is one of baseball's cardinal sins. ¹¹The ban, prominently posted in every clubhouse, is rooted in the 1919 World Series scandal, in which eight players on the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the series for the benefit of gamblers. ¹²More generally, professional sports teams discourage any illegal wagers to ensure that players, coaches, and managers don't become indebted to bookies and leave themselves open to bribes to fix games. ¹³That has happened in football and basketball as well as baseball.
     ¹⁴Rose says he wants to be a big-league manager again, but friends say his real objective is to get into baseball's Hall of Fame. ¹⁵His 19 records, including most career hits, certainly qualify him.
     ¹⁶But by reinstating him so he could manage and be eligible for the Hall of Fame, baseball would send a clear message that it's not serious about protecting the game's integrity.
     ¹⁷The owners already have hurt the sport through poor management, strikes that cost the sport fans, and avoiding a crackdown on the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
     ¹⁸Lifting Rose's lifetime ban based on a hollow confession would only prove that baseball, like Charlie Hustle, still doesn't get it.

—"Sorry, Charlie." USA Today, 7 Jan. 2004, p. A12

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