Pete rose biography gambling casinos

Pete Rose lived long enough to see betting on sports legalized in 38 states and to see much of the stigma attached to engaging in sports wagering erased.

But he did not live long enough to see his own attachments to sports betting destigmatized enough — or, at least, destigmatized enough in the eyes of the right people — to allow him induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rose died in Las Vegas at age 83 on Monday still banned from baseball and ineligible for the Hall of Fame.

What everyone had long assumed would be the case is now officially so: If the man known as “Charlie Hustle,” the 17-time All-Star who recorded more base hits than anyone in MLB history, is going to become a Hall of Famer, he will not be around the enjoy and celebrate the honor.

“The Hall of Fame is not for a bunch of altar boys,” Rose told me in 2021 when I had the opportunity to interview him for my podcast, Gamble