Today in Sports History: The Pete Rose Investigation Begins

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It was on this day, March 20, 1989 when Major League Baseball launched their investigation on Pete Rose gambling on baseball. If you were around, you remember the announcement and the subsequent denials from Pete Rose. Rose wouldn't come clean until he wrote his book My Prison Without Bars in 2001.

Here is CNN's coverage of the result of that investigation.

The guys on Open Mike discuss that and the Front Page of the Internet in the podcast below.


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