Rob Manfred: MLB's relationship with gambling has no effect on Pete Rose's ban

SEATTLE − While Major League Baseball is openly embracing a strong revenue stream from gambling, and plans to relocate the Oakland A’s to Las Vegas, commissioner Rob Manfred said it will not affect Pete Rose’s lifetime ban in 1989 for gambling on baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds.

“I think people believe we make more money off gambling than we actually do," Manfred said Tuesday before the All-Star Game. "But I think for us, we’ve always approached the issue of gambling from the proposition that players and other people who are in position to influence the outcome of the game are going to be subject to a different set of rules than everyone else. Pete Rose violated what is rule 1 of…