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    Is Shohei Ohtani another Pete Rose? Dodgers star not accused of betting on baseball, sports.

    by Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2024 3 minutes
    This picture taken on March 16, 2024, shows Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara attending a press conference at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul ahead of the 2024 MLB Seoul Series baseball game between Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

    LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani is no Pete Rose. At least not yet.

    For one thing, as accomplished as Ohtani is at baseball, his career 684 hits pale in comparison with Rose’s 4,256, the most of any major league player.

    More pertinent to the news cycle is that Ohtani hasn’t been accused of betting on baseball, or betting at all. Rose famously was banned from baseball for life in 1989 by then-Commissioner Bartlett Giamatti (yes, Paul’s dad), whose investigation concluded that Rose had bet on major league games as a player and as a

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