Pete Rose admitted over about ten years ago that he had bet on baseball whilst the manager for the Cincinnati Reds, and that alone was more than enough for Major League Baseball to justify keeping Rose permanently ineligible to participate in baseball activities.

But Rose has always maintained, up through this year, that he never made such bets when he was a new player.

Now it seems as if also Rose’s partial defense might have been a lie.

A former associate of Rose’s, by the US Postal Inspection Service in October 1989 on Monday, ESPN’s Outside the Lines published pages they obtained from a notebook that was collected as part of a raid on the home of Michael Bertolioni.

Notebook Programs Wagers from 1986

Within the notebook, there are details of bets by Rose that happened in 1986, the year that is final of playing profession when he served as a player-manager for the group. The pages revealed by Outside the Lines cover betting activity that covers March through 1986 july.

Critically, the notebook will not show any evidence (or suggestion) that Rose ever bet against the Reds whenever you want. While not everything in the material is legible, the book does show that Rose bet on baseball on at least 1 month during that period.

On 21 of those full days, there were wagers by Rose on the Reds, including on at least some games that Rose played in himself. Rose also bet heavily on other sports, particularly on basketball.

Many of Rose’s bets had been for $2,000, irrespective of the recreations he ended up being betting on. His single biggest bet was a $5,500 wager in the Boston Celtics, one that he lost.

Dowd Finds Closure from Papers

For John Dowd, the previous federal prosecutor who headed up the Major League Baseball investigation into Rose’s betting and lent his name to your infamous Dowd Report that led to Rose’s ban from baseball, the latest information served as a vindication for the work he did back 1989.

‘This does it,’ Dowd said. ‘ This closes the hinged door.’

The knowledge in Bertolini’s notebook ended up being unknown until now as it arises from a research into mail fraud and had absolutely nothing to do with Rose or gambling in general.

Since then, the notebook happens to be under a court-ordered seal in the latest York office associated with nationwide Archives, and officials have declined to discharge it publically.

Beyond your Lines had Dowd newly review the unveiled papers as being a element of their story.

‘We knew that [Bertolini] recorded the bets, and himself, but we never had his records,’ Dowd said that he bet. ‘This is the final piece regarding the puzzle on a New York operation that is betting organized criminal activity. And, of course, [Rose] betting while he had been a player.’

New Info May Scuttle Reinstatement

The reveal is probable to be a setback that is major Rose, who recently sent applications for reinstatement with brand new commissioner Rob Manfred.

However, Rose’s attorney issued a statement saying that they might not comment on the developments that are new.

‘that we would not comment on specific matters relating to reinstatement,’ the statement read since we submitted the application earlier this year, we committed to MLB. ‘I need to maintain that. To be certain, I’m eager to sit down with Manfred to address my entire history—the good together with bad—and my long journey that is personal baseball.’

Pete Rose played in the main leagues, mainly with the Reds, from 1963 to 1986, during which time he collected a record that is all-time of hits.

But in 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame voted to exclude anyone on the list that is ineligible being considered for inclusion, that has kept Rose from being honored as you of baseball’s all-time greats.