Just because you have made yourself into a national embarrassment does not mean you cannot sink any lower.
No, I’m not talking about that other guy, the wannabe dictator with the superpower of having absolutely no sense of shame.
This is the star athlete who gambled his way into the rarified baseball hall of shame, next to Shoeless Joe Jackson. The “Black Sox” scandal was also linked to gambling: Jackson and seven other members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of being bribed to lose the 1919 World Series, with small boys pleading to their idol, “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”
The only athletic memorability I own is a baseball signed “I’m sorry I bet on baseball. Pete Rose.”
Incidentally, that Rose (no relation) was never charged with any gambling crimes. He was convicted of tax evasion, for not reporting the money he made from selling his signature on collectors’ cards and probably baseballs. (I bought mine from a store, in the Rio in Las Vegas, I think).