The Cincinnati Reds are expecting their seventh sellout of the season on Saturday courtesy of Pete Rose.
The team will give out bobbleheads in Rose's likeness to all fans before its game against the St. Louis Cardinals to mark the 30th anniversary of Rose's record-breaking 4,192nd hit.
Fans who want to pay $200 can get Rose's autograph on the bobblehead, a picture with him and a field box ticket. Team spokesman Michael Anderson said 100 packages will be available.
The Reds worked with Rose on the bobblehead, but sources say the team did not have to get approval from Major League Baseball for the promotion. Rose, however, because of a lifetime ban against him, is not allowed to enter parts of the ballpark that are not open to fans.
Rose, who was banned from baseball in 1989 after the league's investigation into his gambling, met new MLB commissioner Rob Manfred at this year's All-Star Game in Cincinnati, a few months after applying for reinstatement for a second time.
For almost 15 years after being banned, Rose denied he bet on baseball. In 2004, he changed his tune, saying he did so only when managing the Reds.
An Outside the Lines report earlier this year produced documentation from one of Rose's former associates that cataloged his bets in 1986, when he was still playing. Rose's attorney said at the time that his client wouldn't comment as he was in the process of reinstatement, and Rose has not commented on the matter since.
Rose passed Ty Cobb as leader in career hits with No. 4,192 on Sept. 11, 1985, and he finished his career with 4,256 hits. Rose played for the Reds from 1963 to 1978 and 1984 to 1986, acting as both a player and a manager from 1984 to 1986 and continuing as just a manager until 1989.