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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: New Pete Rose allegations: Used corked bat and dealt drugs | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 08-07-2001 @ 9:41 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Rose target of allegations in Vanity Fair report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services The upcoming issue of Vanity Fair magazine quotes a former friend of Pete Rose as saying not only did the all-time hits leader bet on baseball while he was player/manager of the Cincinnati Reds, but also kept wads of cash in his ceiling, used a corked bat and participated in drug dealing. The September issue of Vanity Fair will be available nationally Aug. 14. Tommy Gioiosa, a longtime Rose confidant who went to jail in 1990 after refusing to cooperate with a Rose investigation, also is quoted as saying Rose instructed a him to forge his signature on memorabilia. Rose would not comment. "We have absolutely no interest," Rose's agent, Warren Greene, told Vanity Fair. Rose also did not respond to a list of questions submitted to the magazine through both Greene and his attorney, Roger Makley. Gioiosa told the magazine that he has decided to tell his full story now in part because the saga of Rose will never go away. Much of what he described in the interview happened when he and the baseball great were alone. Rose, banned from baseball in 1989 following a lengthy, gambling-related investigation and thus not eligible for the Hall of Fame, has never admitted to betting on baseball and as recently as July appeared in a sports television documentary insisting that he never did. But according to Gioiosa in the Vanity Fair report, Rose bet on baseball, on several occasions doing it directly from his phone in the Reds clubhouse office as he watched. Gioiosa said that Rose bet on the Reds, and that he was present when Rose called another manager to check on the status of whoever was playing that night. "Who's pitching? How's he feeling?" Rose would ask, according to Gioiosa's account. "Like he really cared. Of course it was for betting." According to Gioiosa, Rose once returned from a trip to Japan with a bag full of cash that he then hid in his basement ceiling, where he kept wads of cash -- perhaps as much as $100,000 -- in $10,000 bundles behind removable panels, Vanity Fair reported. Gioiosa also told Vanity Fair that he was present when Rose expressed an interest in investing in cocaine to Donald Stenger, who ran the Gold's Gym Gioiosa managed. Rose said he wanted Gioiosa to be the one to pick up the cocaine in Florida because he trusted him. According to the report, when Gioiosa expressed concern over being stopped, Rose challenged him. Gioiosa also said that he was "scared" to say no to Pete Rose about anything. "I would never say no," he told Vanity Fair. "I guess out of loyalty. I don't know any other word to use but loyalty." The magazine said Gioiosa made the trip to Florida. Stenger denied this ever happened. | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 08-07-2001 @ 10:52 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | now is this true or was he saying it sarcasticly??? because of all the shit baseball gives him??? SIG PIC CREATED BY Jolene78 E-Mail Me METS will go ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!! (ok maybe not this year but i aint chainging this) Yankees & the Braves SUCK !!!!!!!! Resident Strip Club Pimp Very Proud Member of the OA.com Stalker Society | ||||
| Cluster F | posted on 08-07-2001 @ 11:35 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Gioisoa sounds like a kid-toucher to me. What an asshole. Why didnt Gioisoa just say that Rose raped 70 year old women and dogs at the same time? Would have made just as much sense as what he ended up saying anyway. | ||||
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