One more hustle from fading Rose - 2004-01-06
All of the denials, many years of them, should be very lucrative for Pete Rose. If he'd relayed the truth in the beginning, 14 years ago, when he was first banned from baseball for gambling, Rose wouldn't have gotten a book contract or the lavish attention that his tardy confession has provoked.
But we always knew the man had exquisite timing. How else did he hit .303 over 24 major-league seasons? Rose shrewdly came clean in an era when coming clean is far better than staying clean in the first place.
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