Pete Rose Gambling Checks Up For AuctionFans Can Buy The Evidence That Resulted In His Lifetime Ban |
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A handful of the checks Pete Rose wrote for his gambling habit that resulted in his grueling lifetime ban from baseball went up for auction on Friday.
“There is no doubt of the historical significance behind these checks,” Ken Goldin, president of New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions, told ESPN. “Pete is one of the greatest players of all time and certainly one of the most intriguing.”
Rose reportedly may have bet around $1 million over a two-year period in the 1980s.
The online auction closes Nov. 1. The minimum bid is $2,500.
The website for the auction further elaborated on their significance:
“The culmination of Major League Baseball’s investigation into the gambling activities of Pete Rose, the 225-page Dowd Report prepared by Special Counsel to the Commisioner John M. Dowd Esq. submitted to Commissioner Bart Giamatti in May of 1989, ultimately spelled Rose’s demise, but it is the physical evidence of items like these checks signed by Rose that made the report stick.”
Rose, 72, remains banned from baseball, but has admitted to betting on games.
He holds the all-time record for hits in a career with 4,256, set back in 1978. He was manager of the Cincinnati Reds from 1984 to 1989, when the betting occurred.
Efforts have been made to re-instate him, but they haven’t had much traction.
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