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00:00With his passing this week, what was your initial thoughts when you heard that the hit
00:09king had died at 83?
00:13Quite frankly, I never thought Pete Rose would ever die.
00:16Ever.
00:17I mean, he was such a presence.
00:21He was just so important to the game of baseball for so, so many years.
00:28I was saddened, if you want to know the truth.
00:31I have a certain relationship with him.
00:35We were going to write his autobiography, and we wrote a proposal, and they offered
00:40us $350,000 for the thing.
00:45And unfortunately, at the time, he was not willing to admit that he had bet on baseball,
00:52and so he was concerned that we were going to write this thing and that he wasn't going
00:56to tell the truth.
00:57So his response was, they're not offering us enough money.
01:02And so he didn't write the book for another, say, 10 years.
01:07So he, you know, the bottom line was, if he was going to tell the real story, he wanted
01:12more money.
01:13Well, he wasn't going to tell the real story.
01:17And so he didn't really want to write a book where he wasn't telling the truth.
01:24That's the way I saw it.