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I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

Pete Rose

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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
Baseball Player
Cincinnati
Ohio
Peter Edward Rose
Sr.
Charlie Hustle
Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr.
Pete Edward Rose
Suspended
Baseball
Wasn
Betting
Admitted

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