Busted

After weeks of pleading his case to baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti, all-time hits leader Pete Rose is permanently banned from baseball 34 years ago today for gambling on games.

While Giamatti and Rose’s representatives agree to announce no formal findings of Rose betting on games, Giamatti promptly tells the media at a New York City press conference that he considers the agreement to be a no-contest plea by Rose, who at the time is the Cincinnati Reds’ manager.

Rose, hardly distraught by his banishment from the game, immediately flies off to Minneapolis to sell signed collectibles that night on QVC.