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He called me ‘Corky’: Florida man says he corked baseball bats for Pete Rose in 1984

On a quiet cul-de-sac south of Indiantown Road, Bryan Greenberg wades through a gauntlet of tools, bins and paint cans in his standing-room-only garage in search of a baseball relic.

Reaching into a corner shelf, he finds it — a Black & Decker power drill, nicked and dented from years of mileage, loosely wrapped in its electrical cord.

Greenberg said he used the drill decades ago not only to build cabinets and hang shelves for clients back home in Montreal, but also to cork baseball bats for “a couple of” Montreal Expos players, including Pete Rose.

Greenberg wouldn’t identify the other players whose bats he says he corked in violation of baseball rules, only that they played in the 1990s.