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Post by Evil Yoda on Jun 22, 2015 16:31:34 GMT -5
According to pages from a notebook that was seized from a Rose associate in 1989, and has been stored in the National Archives in New York since. John Dowd, who led the investigation that resulted in Rose's banning, had sworn testimony from a bookie but no written evidence prior to this. The associate, Michael Bertollini, recorded both Rose's bets and others in the notebook. It was seized as part of an unrelated mail fraud investigation of Bertollini. Why the National Archives chose to keep a lid on this is another mystery. Article |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 23:30:11 GMT -5
If this is true, I can't say I'm surprised. Rose was in deep to bookies even during his first stint with Cincinnati, so it would stand to reason that he would bet on baseball to try and recoup some of the losses. In fact, he almost had to, since he was a terrible handicapper at virtually every other sport. Long before his gambling became public, Rose owed a lot of money to the types of people who don't take "No" for an answer. Although the documents indicate he was betting on baseball between 1984 and 1986, that may be just the tip of the iceberg. He may have started betting on games long beforehand out of sheer necessity.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Jun 23, 2015 7:16:49 GMT -5
Speculation is law-enforcement wanted the book suppressed because Bertollini, who was certainly mobbed up, was guilty of much more than just sports book.
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