1.) For 26 years, Pete Rose has kept to one story: He never bet on baseball while he was a player. Yes, he admitted in 2004, after almost 15 years of denials, he had placed bets on baseball, but he insisted it was only as a manager. (That too is a lie.)
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2.) He lied about only betting when he was a manager, which was still against the rules. New documents obtained by Outside the Lines indicate Rose bet extensively on baseball and on the Cincinnati Reds, as he racked up the last hits of a record-smashing career in 1986.
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3.) The documents go beyond the evidence presented in the 1989 Dowd report that led to Rose's banishment and provide the first written record that Rose bet while he was still on the field.
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4.) The documents are copies of pages from a notebook seized from the home of former Rose associate Michael Bertolini during a raid by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in October 1989, nearly two months after Rose was declared permanently ineligible by Major League Baseball.
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6.) where officials have declined requests to release it publicly. We knew that [Bertolini] recorded the bets, and that he bet himself, but we never had his records. We tried to get them. He refused to give them to us," Dowd said.
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Lets get Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame!
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7.) "This is the final piece of the puzzle on a New York betting operation with organized crime. And, of course, [Rose] betting while he was a player." • In the time covered in the notebook, from March through July, Rose bet on at least one MLB team on 30 different days.
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8.) It's impossible to count the exact number of times he bet on baseball games because not every day's entries are legible.
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5.) Their authenticity has been verified by two people who took part in the raid, which was part of a mail fraud investigation and unrelated to gambling. For 26 years, the notebook has remained under court-ordered seal and is currently stored in the National Archives' N.Y. Office
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