Roger Clemens steroids question stumps three Jeopardy contestants (VIDEO)

The only thing funnier than these contestants' answers to this "Jeopardy" show question (answer?) is host Alex Trebek's reaction.

To their credit, two women apparently heard about gambling and steroids in baseball and all three knew  that Pete Rose, Curt Schilling and Mark McGwire aren't in the Hall.

Pete Rose raking in $1 million a year signing autographs in Las Vegas

Former Major League Baseball legend and sometime pariah Pete Rose — banned from the sport since 1989 — is still a star on the memorabilia circuit and has revealed he now earns more than $1million a year signing autographs in Las Vegas.

Rose has always made a buck throughout his career selling his signature to fans looking for a piece of Charlie Hustle, but since 2005 he has been a regular fixture signing at the Mirage Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, when he now has his own memorabilia shop.

Since 2005, Rose claims to have spent several hours a day, for 15 to 25 days per month, 12 months of the year signing his name for money. Rose says he is happy to sign and pose for photos with anyone, provided they buy some of the memorabilia he and his business partners sell, including baseballs and photos ranging from $75 to $800. 

"I must say that what I do, and I don't mean to sound arrogant about this, but what I do, I think I'm the best at it," he told The Wall Street Journal.

Rose was a popular player for his hometown Cincinnati Reds from 1963 to 1986. He also managed the team from 1984 to 1989.

He is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053) and outs (10,328).

He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and also made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five different positions.

Then in August 1989, three years after he retired as an active player, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amidst accusations that he gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Reds, including claims that he bet on his own team.

After years of public denial, Rose admitted in 2004 to betting on baseball and on, but not against, the Reds. 

The still admired 71-year-old remains hopeful that one day he will be re-instated, but his election to the Hall of Fame remains a contentious one throughout baseball.

Rose's foray into reality TV wasn't a hit after his TLC series, Pete Rose: Hits and Mrs. — a show he co-starred with his much younger former-Playboy model wife Kiana Kim and her two kids — ground out and was recently cancelled.

Still, it sounds like baseball is very good to Rose.

Corked Mickey Mantle baseball bat on the auction block

Mickey Mantle was a baseball hero to a whole generation of New York Yankees fans young and old. Nothing — not even any of The Mick's off-the-field escapades, surly disposition or flawed personal life choices — could put a damper on any of the slugger's 536 career home runs that brought so much joy to so many.

Now a corked bat — reportedly swung by the Yankees icon is hitting the auction block — could raise some eyebrows about the Hall of Famer's legacy. And it's for sale.

Grey Flannel Auctions is auctioning the doctored Hillerich & Bradsby Co. bat, which was studied by PSA/DNA authenticator John Taube. Taube noticed alterations at the top of the bat’s barrel, and X-rays showed that the barrel had been drilled and filled with cork.

“This is the first corked bat of Mantle that we have seen or heard of,” Taube wrote in his report.

Part of the bat’s handle is coated in pine tar, a characteristic seen on other Mantle bats from the 1960s.

Mantle wasn't the first player to swing a doctored bat. Players have been known to add cork and other substances to bats to improve swing speed, all in hopes of adding extra power to their swings.

But doctoring bats is illegal and this a man with three AL MVP's to his credit.

Embarrassing, too. Chicago Cubs star Sammy Sosa was suspended for eight games in 2003 after his bat shattered during a game, sending pieces of cork flying.

Last month, a game-used Pete Rose bat that also featured a hidden cork panel sold for $8,000 at auction.

Mantle played 18 years with the Yankees and helped the team win seven World Series championships. His name alone still evokes memories of tattered first mitts, summer days and brings tears to many grown men's eyes.

You'll need $5,000 to reserve an opening bid.

Pete Rose and former Playboy Playmate fiance reality show ready to debut

TLC is launching a Pete Rose reality show which focus on the oft-troubled all-time hits leader's upcoming marriage his much younger former Playboy Playmate model fiance, Kiana Kim.

Rose's adult children are reportedly not too thrilled about his impending nuptials to the sexy Kim but network execs believe the contentious family members will make for some riveting low-brow television viewing.

"Pete Rose: Hits and Mrs.," will follow the current life of Rose — who is banned from baseball for life for gambling — and his young fiance who has two young children, 14 and 11, of her own.

The 71-year-old Rose has been married twice and has two grown children from each marriage. The younger Roses will be seen in the new show expressing their disapproval at his relationship with the 31-year-old Kim.

Television has treated us with everything from the mind-numbing dialog of the self-promoting Kardashians to the the alligator-catching stars of "Swamp People.  This sounds like it might be something in between.

Rose has never let go of his dream of making the Hall of Fame, so you can expect him to launch another formal appeal.  It might be futile, but hey, it's good television.

Still, the show will focus primarily on the loving couple as they get ready for the wedding.  The Korean-born Kim — who once posed nude for Playboy — lives in Los Angeles where she has a hair salon while Rose is based in Las Vegas where he is involved in the sports memorabilia business.

Rose has been a controversial figure throughout his whole professional career.  He earned the nickname "Charlie Hustle" for his rugged style of play on the field and famously battled with opposing players, the IRS and the baseball commissioner over the years.  Rose was eventually banned for baseball and finally admitted he was a compulsive gambler.

The former major league great's ineligibility for the Hall of Fame is a touchy subject among baseball fans, although Rose finally relented to the ban after years of resistance.

Rose's anticipated quest for the Hall and the expected bickering among family members gives the premise a lot of potential in the world of reality television — which may not say too much about the state of TV.

The show will debut on January 14.

Pete Rose not betting on Jeter breaking his career hits record

Derek Jeter may be closing in on Pete Rose's all-time career record of 4,256 hits, but the former Cincinnati Reds great isn't laying favorable odds that the New York Yankees shortstop will ever pass him.

The 71-year-old Rose, currently serving a lifetime ban for betting on Major League baseball games while he was manager of the Reds, downplayed the 38-year-old Jeter's chances of getting hit No. 4,257 because of The Captain's age and desire to finish his career with the Yankees.

"He's a great hitter," Rose told writer Joe Posnanski in a Las Vegas interview for the website Sports on Earth.  "But how's he going to get 3,500 more at-bats?  I think time's running out."

Charlie Hustle added the Yankees' philosophy of winning at all costs will handicap Jeter — who currently stands at 3,304 hits.  Rose said:

"What does he have now? What, 3,303 hits?" Rose says, according to the story. "I don't think he will break the record. First of all, I don't think he wants to leave the Yankees. And the Yankees, they're about winning. Jeter had a great year this year, but he's what? Thirty-eight years old? And he's a shortstop? How many 40-year-old shortstops you see walking around? Not too many, right? And they can't put him at third because A-Rod's there. They can't put him at second 'cause Cano's there. He don't help them in left field - he's got to be in the center of things, you know what I mean? What are they going to do? Put him at first base?"

Rose, who signs autographs at memorabilia shows as "The Hit King," put down his Sharpie long enough to do something he now does best — lay out some numbers:

"He still needs 950 (952 to tie Rose) hits, right? He had a great year this year, but you think he can do that again? At 39? A shortstop? Let's say he does it again. Let's say he gets 200 more hits next year. And let's say he gets 200 more hits when he's 40, though I don't think he can. OK, can he get 200 more hits when he's 41? You think he can? I don't think he can get 200 more hits at 41, but let's say he does. OK, now he's 42. He’s gonna get 200 more hits then? At 42? Let me tell you, I've been there, the body locks up. Jeter's a great hitter. I'd say he hits like I did. But he's gonna get 200 hits when he's 42? I don't think he will. And even if he does all that, he's STILL 150 hits short."


Rose may not like Jeter's chances of passing him on his crowning achievement, but expressed admiration for the future Hall of Famer's career.

It's too bad Rose will probably never join him in Cooperstown.