In May, Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon was fired after an investigation found that he was directly communicating with the person who placed bets on a Crimson Tide game against LSU. Manfred’s recent comments come as other leagues, including the NFL and college baseball, have dealt with gambling scandals of their own. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred looks on during the 2023 MLB Draft Getty Images Rose’s public and private comments, including his initial admission in 2004, provide me with little confidence that he has a mature understanding of his wrongful conduct, that he has accepted full responsibility for it, or that he understands the damage he has caused,” Manfred wrote at the time.

Manfred denied the latter application, calling it an “unacceptable risk” to allow Rose back into baseball. He has twice applied for reinstatement with the league - once in 1997 and again in 2015 - with no success. Rose denied the allegations for years until admitting he bet on games he managed, though he said he never bet against his team in a 2004 autobiography. Rose, MLB’s all-time hit king, was banned from baseball in 1989 after he was caught betting on games he managed. The league has co-exclusive partnerships with FanDuel and BetMGM. MLB has embraced sports betting after a 2018 Supreme Court decision ended a prohibition on it. “Pete Rose violated what is Rule 1 of baseball and the consequences of that are clear in the rules.’’ “I think for us, we’ve always approached the issue of gambling from the proposition that players and other people who are in position to influence the outcome of the game are going to be subject to a different set of rules than everyone else,” Manfred said before Tuesday’s All-Star Game. Major League Baseball has deep ties with the sports betting industry these days.īut that’s not changing Pete Rose’s lifetime ban from the sport, according to Commissioner Rob Manfred. Pete Rose gets Hall push from MLB legend: ‘Hypocritical’ Rob Manfred doesn’t think legalized sports betting absolves Pete Rose

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