A Sorry Signature Is Going for $299

For the right price, Pete Rose is willing to write on a baseball that he’s sorry.

The hit king unveiled his latest marketing venture Wednesday on his website. For $299, plus $4.99 shipping and handling, fans can order a baseball inscribed “I’m sorry I bet on baseball” along with Rose’s autograph.

The offering came two days after an auction house confirmed that 30 baseballs inscribed the same way would be available for bid next April.

“Now you can get the baseball collectible everyone’s talking about -- Pete Rose’s personal apology for betting on baseball, newly inscribed on an actual baseball -- at a fantastic price,” the website says.

Rose’s business agent, Warren Greene, didn’t return a call to discuss Rose’s change of heart.

On Monday, Greene said Rose had inscribed baseballs with the apology for some of his collector friends about a year ago. Greene said that Rose never intended for the balls to be sold publicly.

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