“Dowd said his report clearly shows that Rose bet while he was player-manager for the Reds in 1986. … Janszen says that Rose indeed was betting in 1986 when he was player-manager.”  p. 7A of Cincinnati Enquirer article of March 22, 2015 by James Pilcher (John Faherty and John Fay contributed as well) NOTE: Dowd was special counsel to the commissioner of baseball. Janszen was baseball’s key witness against Rose.

“To Dowd, it was what Rose’s gambling had done to the game of baseball that was at the heart of why the investigation and subsequent ban was so important. ‘To be honest, it doesn’t really matter whether he bet for or against the Reds, or as a player or just a manager,’ Dowd said. ‘What matters is that, by the end, he owed a half a million (dollars) to some pretty unsavory people, who were actually in the clubhouse from time to time. Imagine a half a million mortgage over your head every time you walked out on the field to go to work and wondering how you were going to pay that off, especially to those kinds of people,’ Dowd said. ‘That’s how insidious this had become.” p. 7A-8A of Cincinnati Enquirer article of March 22, 2015 by James Pilcher (John Faherty and Fohn Fay contributed as well)

“Never let him back in baseball” – Pete’s investigator, John Dowd

Cincinnati Enquirer full story – March 22, 2015

Other Cincinnati Enquirer materials on Pete Rose HERE