In Defense Of Pete Rose

May, 2000

There are four things wrong with baseball's ban on Pete Rose.First, on the specific charge of betting on baseball: The case against Rose is nowhere near as strong as baseball believes it to be. Second, even if it could prove that Rose had bet on baseball, it wouldn't justify a ten-year suspension, let alone a lifetime ban. Third, major league baseball's handling of the investigation, even if Rose is guilty, has been unseemly, arrogant and disrespectful. And fourth, baseball refuses to acknowledg...