Shohei's Scandal and Pete Rose's Banishment

The two incidents, almost four decades apart are quite different, but baseball has changed a lot as well since the 1980s.

It is difficult to look at the scandal unfolding around Shohei Ohtani and not think back to almost forty years ago when another baseball legend was caught in a gambling related scandal. Pete Rose saw his reputation and standing in baseball unravel. He ended up being banned from baseball for life and denied a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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