In January, 1986 Dayton bookie Richard “The Skin Man” Skinner secretly recorded a conversation with Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose about Rose’s gambling debt to Skinner.
Dayton Daily News reporter Wes Hills obtained the recording in 2002 from U.S. District Court in Dayton after it was seized during a raid of Skinner’s home several years earlier. The Dayton Daily News reported on the tape at the time, and now has made an edited version available online.