Pete Rose, already banned from Main League Baseball for playing, is now accused of breaking one other of the game’s guidelines.
A former groundskeeper for the Montreal Expos just lately informed the Montreal Gazette that Rose routinely had an Olympic Stadium staffer cork his bats in 1984. Rose performed a lot of the 1984 season for the Expos earlier than he was traded again to his unique membership, the Cincinnati Reds, that August.
Joe Jammer, then an Expos groundskeeper and now a musician in London, informed the Gazette in a phone interview, “Pete Rose would have his bats corked within the guests’ clubhouse at Olympic Stadium. I came upon he was corking bats. …
“Pete was too good to cope with Expos tools supervisor John Silverman (to cork his bats within the Expos’ clubhouse). So Bryan Greenberg, who labored within the guests’ clubhouse, did it. He took me right into a room, a door to the left, and beneath tarps there was this machine.”
Jammer stated Greenberg informed him the machine was used to cork Rose’s bats.
“The man (Greenberg) was saying Rose had been corking his bat for 20 years,” Jammer informed the Gazette. “The man stated that no person checks him as a result of he’s a singles hitter.”
The method of corking a bat to enhance its efficiency includes hollowing out a portion of the wooden and filling that part with cork or rubber balls. The process is banned by MLB.
One other nameless supply confirmed Jammer’s account to the newspaper.
“Yeah, Bryan Greenberg did it for (Rose),” the nameless supply reportedly stated. “He solely did it a couple of occasions a yr. I didn’t realize it was within the guests’ clubhouse. I assumed it was on (Greenberg’s) lathe in his storage.”
The Gazette reported that it spoke just lately with Greenberg, who now works for a sports activities advertising agency in Florida, to ask if he corked Rose’s bats.
“I actually can’t reply these questions. I actually can’t discuss it,” he informed the newspaper.
Informed by the Gazette that two folks had stated he had altered Rose’s bats, Greenberg replied, “They'll say no matter they need.”
Based on the newspaper, Greenberg was a carpenter who helped construct Olympic Stadium fences previous to getting a job within the visiting clubhouse.
The Gazette reported that considered one of Rose’s representatives, Ryan Fiterman, declined to touch upon the story.
Although Rose is baseball’s all-time chief with 4,256 hits, he's not within the Corridor of Fame as a result of a lifetime ban from the game handed down by then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989 as a result of Rose’s alleged playing.
After years of denying the fees that he wager on baseball video games, Rose admitted in a 2004 guide that he had wager on video games, solely on his personal group.
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