Pete Rose admitted over a decade ago he had bet on baseball although the manager associated with the Cincinnati Reds, and that alone was more than sufficient 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 wagers as he was a player.

Now it seems as though also Rose’s partial protection may have been a lie.

On Monday, ESPN’s Outside the Lines published pages they obtained from a notebook which was collected as part of the raid on your home of Michael Bertolioni, a former associate of Rose’s, by the United States Postal Inspection provider in October 1989.

Notebook Programs Wagers from 1986

In the notebook, there are information on bets by Rose that took place in 1986, the year that is final of playing job when he served as being a player-manager for the group. The pages revealed by Outside the Lines cover betting activity that covers March through July 1986.

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 written book does show that Rose bet on baseball on at least 30 days during that period.

On 21 of the full days, there had been bets 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, regardless of the sports he ended up being gambling 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 former 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, this new information served as a vindication associated with the work he did back in 1989.

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

The details in Bertolini’s notebook had been unknown until now as it originates from a research into mail fraud and had absolutely nothing to do with Rose or gambling as a whole.

Subsequently, the notebook has been under a seal that is court-ordered the New York office of the National Archives, and officials have declined to produce it publically.

Beyond your Lines had Dowd newly review the unveiled documents 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 may be the last piece of the puzzle on a New York operation that is betting arranged crime. And, of course, [Rose] betting while he was a player.’

New Info May Scuttle Reinstatement

The unveil is probably to be a setback that is major Rose, who recently requested reinstatement with new commissioner Rob Manfred.

However, Rose’s lawyer issued a statement stating that they would not discuss the brand new developments.

‘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 make sure, I’m eager to sit down with Manfred to handle my entire history—the good and the bad—and my long personal journey since 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 anybody on the ineligible list from being considered for addition, that has kept Rose from being honored as you of baseball’s all-time greats.