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Major League Baseball on Tuesday announced disciplinary action against five players for betting on baseball, the latest indication that widespread legalization of sports gambling and MLB’s promotion of gambling-based advertisers could be heating the prevalence of gambling among players, long simmering out of sight, to a boil.

San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano became the first person to be declared permanently ineligible for betting on baseball since Pete Rose in 1989 after an MLB investigation revealed Marcano bet more than $87,000 on MLB games, including 25 Pittsburgh Pirates games for which he was injured but on the major league roster.