Ex-Expos groundskeeper: Pete Rose used corked bats

[ASFN Admin]

Pete Rose, already banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, is now accused of breaking another of the sport's rules. A former groundskeeper for the Montreal Expos recently told the Montreal Gazette that Rose routinely had an Olympic Stadium staffer cork his bats in 1984. Rose played most of the 1984 season for the Expos before he was traded back to his original club, the Cincinnati Reds, that August.

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