LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Pete Rose has been erased from Topps Baseball Cards for 2013. Pete Rose’s records have been not been erased from the back of the latest baseball cards. Just his name. And Topps is defending its actions today.

Topps spokesman Clay Luraschi in a news statement Thursday would not give an explanation for the erasing, but only qualified it as simple. Luraschi said it was a “a simple decision” and was “plain and simple”.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Kiana Kim addresses her Playboy photos and Pete Rose’s MLB suspension tonight on TLC. Kiana Kim Playboy photos have dominated news for three years. But months ago, the future Mrs. Pete Rose revealed that she now wants to be a reality show star. Tonight, TLC takes a swing at “Pete Rose Hits and Mrs.”.

In her new reality show, Kiana Kim confronts her past Playboy photos. But for now, she has a surprise for Pete Rose. She intends to pursue reduction surgery. Besides that, critics claim that Kim’s character has not much to offer in the six episode reality series. On screen, Kiana Kim is joined by her daughter Cassie, 14, and her son Ashton, 11.

Most of the first two episodes, however, will reportedly focus more on Pete Rose’s lifetime suspension from MLB. In a 1989 settlement with then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti, Rose agree to the lifetime suspension from baseball. He admitted to having bet on baseball previously.

Kiana, born in Seoul, Korea, moved out to the U.S. at age 5. A graduate of Arizona State University, she earned a BS in Business Marketing. Later she worked with Korean Airlines as a flight attendant and later opened a hair salon in LA.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Playboy’s Kiana Kim (photos below) and Pete Rose have secured a new reality show for TLC. Kiana Kim, whose Playboy pictures endeavors dominated news in recent years, is now engaged to the 71 year old baseball star. Rose tells news that TLC has decided to pick up a 2012 reality show project about the couple, filmed in Los Angeles.

Kiana Kim first was covered on LALATE back in 2009. At the time, Pete Rose told news that he wanted his new girlfriend to pose for Playboy magazine. At the time the couple said she “will” appear for the publication.

Born in Seoul, Kiana moved to the US at age 5 and was raised in Los Angeles. But she thereafter pursued higher learning. She went to college at Arizona State and then got her BS in Business marketing.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Playboy model Kiana Kim (photos below) and Pete Rose are getting serious, especially now that Rose is divorced. Kiana Kim and Pete Rose have been covered on LALATE as a serious couple since 2009. But during that time, Rose was also still married. This week that all changed.

Rose has filed locally in Los Angeles to end his marriage to Carol Rose. The couple had been married since 1984. Rose had no comment about the divorce news.

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But since 2009, Kiana Kim and Pete Rose have certainly heated up news with Rose’s push for Kim to become a major page-turner in publications like Playboy. Kim is a former Korean Airlines’ flight attendant and an Arizona State graduate.

During a 2009 interview, Rose told news about Kim but omitted her name, simply saying  “My girl has finally decided to try to shoot for Playboy, and they were kind enough to give her an opportunity to come to Houston for an interview, and we’re excited about that.” Rose, while still married, had top praise for Kim, calling her educated and intelligent.

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News of Kim came at the same time that Hank Aaron was telling press that Rose should be reinstated to baseball after a lifetime ban since 1989.  “I would certainly like to see him in. He belongs in, really” Aaron said then .”His career is one that he needs to be right here in the middle of all of this.”

Kim has appeared locally on Los Angeles morning news broadcast. She states that she “can be seen frequently on a segment of NBC’s Today in LA “The Morning Wakeup Workout”. “

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CINCINNATI (LALATE) – Pete Rose’s controversy is to blame for his bat selling at only $158,000, says its auctioneer. Pete Rose’s bat that he used for his final hit just went for sale for  $158,776, a price that is being blamed on Rose’s controversy and the economy.

Seven bids were given for the bat that delivered Rose’s final hit.

But Lelands.com’s auctioneers told press today that the sale was hurt but Rose’s controversial problems with MLB.  Strangely, another bat used by George Sisler to get his 257th hit in the 1920 season drew 31 bids. The Sisler bat sold for nearly the same price as Rose’s bat.

Rose had no comment to the sale

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