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 not too long ago advised the Montreal Gazette that Rose routinely had an Olympic Stadium staffer cork his bats in 1984. Rose performed many of the 1984 season for the Expos earlier than he was traded again to his authentic membership, the Cincinnati Reds, that August.
Joe Jammer, then an Expos groundskeeper and now a musician in London, advised the Gazette in a phone interview, “Pete Rose would have his bats corked within the guests’ clubhouse at Olympic Stadium. I discovered 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 advised 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 advised the Gazette. “The man stated that no person checks him as a result of he’s a singles hitter.”
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The method of corking a bat to enhance its efficiency entails 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 number of occasions a yr. I didn’t realize it was within the guests’ clubhouse. I believed it was on (Greenberg’s) lathe in his storage.”
The Gazette reported that it spoke not too long ago 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 speak about it,” he advised the newspaper.
Instructed by the Gazette that two individuals had stated he had altered Rose’s bats, Greenberg replied, “They will say no matter they need.”
In line with 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 one in all 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 workforce.