[aprirr]

Bonds wasn't banned from baseball like Rose was. While a previous thread mentioned the fact that gambling on baseball by the players was the cardinal sin, there were other instances of gambling that were swept under the rug by the Commissioner's office(see the "Dutch Leonard affair" involving Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker in 1926). Most likely due to 1) the financial and, therefore, legal clout of Ty Cobb, by then more wealthy than some of the owners and 2) the owner's unwillingness to any kind of legal action that would have brought the contractual reserve clause into the courts. Pete Rose, in my opinion, happened to get caught gambling at the wrong time since the reserve clause had been abolished more than 2 decades prior.