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Entertainment & Sports

Dec. 18, 2015

Longtime civil rights lawyer's most recent cause? Pete Rose

Mark Rosenbaum, director of Public Counsel, grew up a fan of Pete Rose and the Cincinnati Reds. Now, he's trying to get Rose into the Hall of Fame.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Public interest lawyers watching baseball great Pete Rose's press conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday could be excused for falling out of their seat.

Rose, whose lifetime Major League Baseball ban for gambling was emphatically upheld on Monday by new baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred,was flanked to his left by Raymond Genco,a Boston-based personal injury and sports lawyer at Genco LLC,who...

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