APOLOGIZED:

01/12/1998 at 12:00 AM EST

NBC sportscaster Jim Gray, to baseball fans Tuesday night, for his contentious interview with Pete Rose before Game 2 of the World Series. NBC was deluged by complaints from fans Sunday night after Gray's interview with Rose at Turner Field in Atlanta. It centered on Rose's lifetime ban from the sport for gambling and came minutes after he returned to a major league field for the first time in 10 years as a member of baseball's All-Century team.