Baseball Legend Rose Gambles Away $1Million a Year Autograph Money

His baseball career is a tale of fame and infamy, with more hits than any player in history balanced by his lifetime ban from the game for betting on his own matches – and now his wife has claimed in divorce papers that Pete Rose is gambling away his “$1million+ per year autograph earnings” – while allegedly having “significant debts with casinos and the IRS”. 

The allegations are part of new divorce documents filed by his estranged wife, Carol Rose, who Pete married back in 1984 and, despite filing for divorce back in 2011, is still technically married to.

Rose, nicknamed ‘Charlie Hustle’ spent two and a half decades playing MLB baseball and latterly managing the Cincinnati Reds, breaking numerous all-time records along the way before his career ended in ruins, a lifetime ban bringing his illustrious MLB journey to an end in 1989.

His wife Carol, however, has recently claimed he earns $100,000 per month from daily autograph signings and now wants the court ‘to order Pete to lay out his financial situation to the court so they can hash out a proper settlement and finally end their marriage once and for all’, according to TMZ Sports.

She also claims that Rose currently blows his huge income on high-stakes gambling, saying that in one instance Rose signed autographs at a retail store in Mandalay Bay Casino before immediately heading for the casino floor to blow the lot – a regular occurrence apparently backed up by fans’ stories…

Rose’s fondness for the kind of gambling which ended his career has also left him out in the cold when it comes to baseball’s Hall of Fame – his ban meaning he is permanently excluded from joining fellow baseball legends, despite his incredible successes.

Mrs. Rose also claims her husband ‘owes the IRS and unnamed casinos large sums of money’ according to reports, although Rose disputed this in a court filing last month.