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Pete Rose Bet 'Like $2,000' Per Game

Foul Balls found this 5/29/2008 on sports.aol.com

Long before steroids became the blackeye du jour of Major League Baseball, there was that small problem of gambling that threatened to tear the game apart. Much like Barry Bonds has been the poster boy of the Steroids Era, all-time hits leader Pete Rose carried the cross that was baseball's gambling problem. You all know the story by now, Rose was banished from baseball in 1989 by ...