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Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier drives to the basket against Memphis Grizzlies guard Javon Small during an October preseason game in Miami.

Long before anyone thought about investigating Pete Rose for gambling, everyone knew he was a degenerate gambler.

Rose didn’t keep it a secret. He talked constantly about betting, even in the Cincinnati Reds clubhouse, where he was the manager. He spread his action around to so many bookies that a personal cheque he’d signed over to one of them was seized in a raid. Baseball didn’t want to investigate Rose. He gave them no choice.

Even after he’d been caught, Rose lied about the extent of it for years. The issue wasn’t settled until he admitted everything in an autobiography, more than a decade after the fact.

Those were the good old days of

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