Say it ain't so Pete!!!

Pete Rose has got some balls..... and he is apparently selling them for a $1,000 each in an auction.

Baseball's all-time hit king, banned from the game in 1989 for betting on baseball, has signed basballs with a confessional inscription: "I'm sorry I bet on baseball -- Pete Rose," the New York Daily News reported.

Apparently Robert Edwards Auctions acquired the balls from the estate of a recently passed away New Jersey Businessman, Barry Halper.

There are about 30 up for auction, but it is believed that 40 to 50 are currently on the market.

Pete, you don't have to remind us that you belong in Cooperstown. Is there no limit as to what he will do to plead his case?

UPDATE:

Baseball's banished hits king signed the baseballs for some of his friends about a year ago, but didn't want them put up for sale, according to business agent Warren Greene. "These guys are collectors. Pete signed for them," Greene said, in a phone interview. "Pete made zero dollars for signing them." The baseballs say "I'm sorry I bet on baseball" in block letters, with Rose's autograph directly below. Greene didn't know who suggested the inscription.

It appears that our boy Pete has been swindled. Didn't he ever learn never to sign anything that he fully read and understood?