MLB notes: ESPN says Rose bet on Reds while playing - STLtoday.com
"I told her I was working tonight" jokes Pete Rose after the phone in his pocket rang while he was coaching third base in the second inning for Gateway Grizzlies at GCS Ballpark in Sauget on Friday, May 15, 2015. Rose also signed autographs for... ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported Monday that a ledger confiscated in 1989 during the raid on a Rose associate’s Ohio home confirmed that Rose had done what he long had denied — bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he still was playing for them. The documents showed Rose’s wagers — up to $5,500 — on various sporting events, including Reds games. In 1989, baseball’s Dowd Report, which led to the player’s banishment from the game that year, stated that Rose then owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to gamblers. … The implications for baseball are terrible,’’ said John Dowd, who headed baseball’s investigation into Rose. The incriminating pages came from a notebook seized at Bertolini’s home during a U. S. Postal Inspection Service raid in October 1989, nearly two months after Rose was declared permanently ineligible. Rose, now 74, has denied betting on games in which he played ever since news of his gambling troubles broke in 1989. Dowd’s investigators were told Rose had bet on the Reds from 1984 through 1986, his last season as. Source: www.stltoday.com
