From Morning Briefing in the Los Angeles Times:
Always hustling: Pete Rose might never have been a very good con man.
At least that’s the implication from a story ESPN’s Joe Morgan told at a recent Texas Ranger luncheon.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Morgan said Rose had a paper route as a kid, and one day called the district manager, saying he’d been mugged and robbed. When Rose was asked how much he’d lost, he said, “Hold on a minute. Let me count it.”