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Rose -Hall of Fame ---Has the time come ??
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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 1291128" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>"This is the Major League rule in question. It is not vague, and it is well known to all players and coaches:</p><p><em>Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform <strong>shall be declared permanently ineligible</strong>.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>Dowd collected gambling ledgers, bank and phone records and court documents. He took depositions from Rose’s friends who placed bets for him, from one of his bookies, from <a href="http://www.thedowdreport.com/EXHIBIT_002A.pdf" target="_blank">Rose himself</a>. He found that Rose was betting five to 10 games a day, every day, in basketball, football, hockey and baseball, at about $2,000 a game. In one month, Rose lost more than $67,000, and he was deeply in debt to the bookies, including $200,000 in the hole at one point to a Staten Island bookie linked to the Mafia. He refused to pay substantial debts to his bookies at various times, witnesses told Dowd, and that can get a guy in a heap of trouble<em>"</em></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/03/10/fairfaxs-john-dowd-investigated-pete-rose-in-1989-responds-to-sports-illustrated-push-for-rose/" target="_blank"><em>more</em></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 1291128, member: 4805"] "This is the Major League rule in question. It is not vague, and it is well known to all players and coaches: [I]Any player, umpire, or club or league official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform [B]shall be declared permanently ineligible[/B]. [/I] Dowd collected gambling ledgers, bank and phone records and court documents. He took depositions from Rose’s friends who placed bets for him, from one of his bookies, from [URL='http://www.thedowdreport.com/EXHIBIT_002A.pdf']Rose himself[/URL]. He found that Rose was betting five to 10 games a day, every day, in basketball, football, hockey and baseball, at about $2,000 a game. In one month, Rose lost more than $67,000, and he was deeply in debt to the bookies, including $200,000 in the hole at one point to a Staten Island bookie linked to the Mafia. He refused to pay substantial debts to his bookies at various times, witnesses told Dowd, and that can get a guy in a heap of trouble[I]"[/I] [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/03/10/fairfaxs-john-dowd-investigated-pete-rose-in-1989-responds-to-sports-illustrated-push-for-rose/'][I]more[/I][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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