New York (AFP) - Pete Rose, Major League Baseball's all-time hits leader banished from the sport for gambling, bet on 1986 games he played in, according to records obtained by ESPN unveiled in a Monday report.
In televised and website reports, ESPN displayed copies of pages from a notebook sealed under a court order that outlined wagers made by Rose from March to July of 1986, in the final months player-manager Rose took the field before serving strictly as a bench boss for the Cincinnati Reds.
The notebook was seized by federal agents in 1989 at the home of former Rose associate Michael Bertolini, about two months after Rose was handed a life ban from baseball by then-commissioner Bart Giamatti, who died eight days after making the pronouncement.