Pete Rose selling autographed "I'm Sorry" baseballs for $299

[Initech]

CINCINNATI -- For the right price, Pete Rose is willing to write on a baseball that he's sorry.

The hits king unveiled his latest marketing venture Wednesday on his Web site. For $299, plus $4.99 shipping and handling, fans can order a baseball inscribed "I'm sorry I bet on baseball" along with Rose's autograph.

The offering came two days after an auction house confirmed that 30 baseballs inscribed the same way would be available for bid next April.

"Now you can get the baseball collectible everyone's talking about -- Pete Rose's personal apology for betting on baseball, newly inscribed on an actual baseball -- at a fantastic price," the Web site says.

Rose's business agent, Warren Greene, didn't return a phone call to discuss the hit king's change of heart.

On Monday, Greene told The Associated Press that Rose had inscribed baseballs with the apology for some of his collector friends about a year ago. Greene said that Rose never intended for the balls to be sold publicly.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2596459

Sorry, Pete... no sale!

[Elidor]

1. What a slut

He just wrote his own epitaph.

[Vidar]

2. I'd give him a pass on this. He never bet on his team, and did

far less damage to the game than the unapologetic present generation of steroid jocks.

[Broken_Hero]

3. I could give him a pass too...

his contribution to the game is pretty good...but I'm a forgive/forget kind of guy. As for the steriod freaks...yeah, I believe they are worse for the game than the gambling Pete Rose did.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. *pulls up comfy chair*

:popcorn: