This report is reprinted here with the permission of John Dowd. The contents are Copyright 1989, 1999 by John M. Dowd, Esq. and the Baseball Archive. Any public or commercial use, distribution or duplication of these materials without written permission from The Baseball Archive is a violation of federal copyright law. Use of this site constitutes agreement with these terms. IV. Documentary Evidence A. Pete Rose's Betting Sheets We obtained from Paul Janszen copies of three pages of handwritten records which Janszen took from Rose's home.[443] Danita Marcum testified that she recognized the handwriting on these sheets as Pete Rose's because she recalled being at Rose's home and watching him writing everything down "in his book.[444] Janszen also testified that Rose used to record his bets on a notepad.[445] The first of these three pages contains the date "April 9, 1987" at the top, followed by the team pairings for four Major League Baseball games and four NBA basketball games. The lower half of the page contains individual team names and team pairings, with the letter "L" or "W." This part of the page includes three baseball pairings including "Cin at Mont W," "Philly at Atl. L" and "LA at Houst L." [Editor's Note: The above is an inaccurate description of the document in question. See a picture of the alleged betting slip. The notation "Philly at Atl. L" refers to an NBA game played that night. All other references to this document agree that there are seven NBA games noted on this portion of the alleged betting slip and four MLB games. The MLB games are: "LA at Houst L", "Cin at Mont W" "Boston L", and "Cal W." The NBA games are: "Wash -2 L", "Clev +6½ W", "Chicago -1 W", "G. St -6½", "Philly at Atl. L", "Philly +8½ L", "NJ -2½ L", "San Ant E L", and "Dallas +2½ L". <S. Lahman>] The second sheet has baseball and basketball teams listed for April 10, 1987 and April 11, 1987. Each team has a "W" or "L" next to it. Some of the basketball teams have what appear to be point spreads, e.q., "Utah -5 L." Cincinnati is listed on both April 10 and April 11, 1987 along with a "W." The Reds beat San Diego on both of these dates.[446] The third sheet is undated and contains names of teams and pairings for college and professional football games, e.g., "W Miami vs. Okl -3." Next to three of the college teams is the notation "5 dimes." On March 16, 1989, Pete Rose gave handwriting exemplars to Richard E. Casey, a retired FBI agent and experienced handwriting analysis expert. Mr. Casey was also provided with contemporaneous writings of Pete Rose for 1987. Mr. Casey compared Rose's handwriting exemplars and contemporaneous writings with the three handwritten sheets described above. His conclusions are:
Paul Janszen and Danita Marcum provided handwriting exemplars to James R. Dibowski of Cincinnati, Ohio, a retired postal inspector and experienced handwriting analysis expert.[448] Mr. Dibowski concluded that the three above-described sheets were not in the handwriting of either Marcum or Janszen.[449] Footnotes: 433) See Exhibit 16. Rose denied that he ever kept records of his gambling activities. Rose Dep. at 82. 444) Marcum Dep. at 16. 445) Janszen Dep. at 43. 446) 1988 Cincinnati Reds Media Guide at 72 (listing 1987 game results). See Exhibit 21. 447) Report of Richard E. Casey, April 11, 1989, at 5. See Exhibit 71. Mr. Casey could not "identify or eliminate" Pete Rose as the writer of the fractional entries, but "some similarities were noted which suggest the possibility that Rose is also the writer of those entries." Casey Report at 5. 448) Mr. Dibowski spent twenty-seven years as an Examiner of Questioned Documents in the Postal Inspection Service Crime Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving as director of the Crime Laboratory for 14 years. Since his retirement in 1976, Mr. Dibowski has assisted both state and federal prosecutors in the prosecution of criminal cases. 449) Report of James Dibowski, March 16, 1989, at 1. See Exhibit 72. [ Previous Page ] [ Next Page ] |
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