Reds Ignite the Night: What Pete Rose’s Return from MLB’s Shadows Means for Baseball’s Future
Pete Rose’s legacy contains much more than just hits and gambling. (Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images)
(Jeff Dean via Getty Images)
And that’s just the matter of Rose’s betting. There’s also the fact that one of his bats, used in 1985 while he was in pursuit of Ty Cobb’s hits record, was found to contain telltale signs of corking in 2010, with another guy later coming forward to say he did bat-corking for Rose.
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Then there are the truly heinous allegations raised by former Rose investigator John Dowd. Dowd alleged in a 2015 interview that Rose committed statutory rape with 12-to-14-year-old girls provided by a memorabilia dealer at spring training in the 1970s, when Rose was a married father of two in his 30s.
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