ESPN: Notebook listed Pete Rose's bets on baseball as a player

Pete Rose. (Michael Bryant/Staff Photographer)All of Pete Rose's impressive entries in baseball's record books - the National League hits mark he set as a Phillie, the major-league standard that came during his second stint with the Reds - may ultimately mean nothing now that the contents of another record book have been made public.

ESPN's Outside the Lines reported Monday that a ledger confiscated in 1989 during the raid on a Rose associate's Ohio home confirmed that baseball's all-time hits leader had done what he had long denied - bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he was still playing for them.

The network reviewed Michael Bertolini's notebook, a document that baseball investigators had…