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VII. Summary of the Evidence

Pete Rose denied under oath placing bets or causing others to place bets on the Cincinnati Reds and other ball games of Major League Baseball. Indeed, Rose denied Under oath ever associating with anyone placing bets on his behalf on the Cincinnati Reds or the games of Major League Baseball. He admitted placing bets with Tommy Gioiosa on other sports activity, but denied knowing the Ohio bookmaker or other bookmakers in New York. Me denied being delinquent in paying his gambling losses or having borrowed from his associates and friends to pay his gambling losses.

A. The Key Evidence

The evidence should be viewed as a whole in order to obtain a clear picture. Nevertheless, it is important to note the following five distinct pieces of evidence pointing to Pete Rose's betting on the Reds and baseball:

First, the three page document in Rose's handwriting recording baseball games and the results. Pete Rose's explanation that he does not recognize the document or the handwriting is perhaps the only answer he can render given his posture in this case.

Second, the notebook of Paul Janszen recording the betting action of Pete Rose from April 7, 1987 to May 3, 1987, on Reds games as well as other games. To those who might suggest the notebook was fabricated by an unpaid creditor, the next piece of evidence should be closely examined.

Third, the telephone traffic in the collective telephone records bears remarkable witness to the betting action before game time of the Cincinnati Reds -- home or away, night or day -- particularly the unexplained calls from Rose's home and hotel rooms to Chevashore, Val and Peters during the baseball season. Rose offered no explanation for these telephone calls.

Fourth, the betting records of Ron Peters which show baseball betting action on the Reds and other Major League Baseball games in 1987 by one customer.

Fifth, the unguarded statements of Steve Chevashore on tape contradicted Rose's statement that Janszen, Chevashore and Val were not involved in the sports betting action on the Cincinnati Reds or Major League Baseball for Pete Rose.

Sixth, the Bertolini tape reveals not only serious questions as to Rose's testimony about his gambling habit, but the modus operandi employed by Rose to disguise and conceal his enormous gambling indebtedness, the identity of his bookmakers and his betting on baseball. The generating of funds through loans to Bertolini, the remission of checks to fictitious payees, and the delay in the production of bank records from Star Bank and Oak Mills Savings and Loan all raise serious questions whether Pete Rose is trying to conceal his gambling on baseball and the Reds.

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