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IV. Documentary Evidence

E. Other Records

We have obtained and reviewed the following telephone records for the relevant time period: Pete Rose's home phone bills;[458] Rose's car phone bills;[459] Janszen's home and car phone bills;[460] Gold's Gym phone bills;[461] the telephone logs maintained by the Cincinnati Reds of calls to and from the clubhouse (which contain notations by an operator that identify the player making or receiving the call);[462] the telephone logs of the other National League teams;[465] and the hotel bills from the Reds 1987 road trips (many of which list long distance numbers called from the player's or manager's room).[464] We have also obtained copies of various bank records of Pete Rose, including cancelled checks and statements.

The following section summarizes the information obtained from these records, particularly the telephone traffic between the various parties. The sequence of the various telephone calls is significant because it corroborates Janszen's testimony that when he and Rose were not together at the same location, he would call Rose to obtain the names of the teams on which Rose wanted to bet, and then would call the bookmaker (Chevashore, Val or Peters). Some of the records indicate that calls were placed to the bookmakers directly from Rose's home or hotel room.

Footnotes:

457) See Exhibit 17.

458) See Exhibit 53.

459) See Exhibit 54.

460) See Exhibit 55, 56.

461) See Exhibit 22, 74.

462) See Exhibit 75.

463) See Exhibit 76.

464) See Exhibit 77.

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