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For one day, Pete Rose is a manager again, and his old self, too

Pete Rose was the manager of the independent league Bridgeport Bluefish for one game on Monday.

Pete Rose was the manager of the independent league Bridgeport Bluefish for one game on Monday.

Dear Mr. Maguire: At your request, this letter confirms that if Pete Rose were to manage the independent league Bridgeport Bluefish, this office would not consider such activity to be a violation of the August 23, 1989 agreement between this office and Mr. Rose. Sincerely yours. Thomas J. Ostertag. (Mr. Ostertag is a Senior Vice President and the General Counsel for the league.)

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Kostya Kennedy's new book, Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, is available here.

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