Tommy Gioiosa is chatting away as a breeze cuts through the Intracoastal and a full moon bounces off the water in the pool, lit in a stream of blue lights. Gioiosa is wearing jeans and a tight T ...

Tommy Gioiosa, at 43, is married, living a new life. He sold everything Pete Rose ever gave him to pay off lawyers, and he insists he was not paid to tell his story of life with Pete Rose to ...

Source: ESPN.com news services and the Dowd Report. Tommy Gioiosa, a longtime Rose confidant who went to jail in 1990 after refusing to cooperate with a Rose investigation, also is quoted as ...

One more ghost from Pete Rose's past slipping out of the shadows. What was Tommy Gioiosa's involvement with Pete Rose? The two met in 1978 at spring training in Florida, where Gioiosa, from New ...

Tommy Gioiosa, a man so loyal that he went to federal prison for three years rather than testify against Rose, sings a familiar tune about betting and lawbreaking, with a new chorus about corking.

In 1978, Rose befriended a young man from New Bedford, Mass., Tommy Gioiosa. Rose was introduced to Gioiosa by his son, Pete Rose II, in Florida during spring training. Gioiosa became a constant ...

PORT ST. LUCIE – Tommy Gioiosa, one of Pete Rose’s former gambling buddies, says the Hit King’s claim he never made bets from the Reds clubhouse is untrue. “Of course he bet from the ...

NEW BEDFORD -- Tommy Gioiosa rode Pete Rose's coattails as far as they would take him from New Bedford obscurity to the Major League high life. But when the high life turned into the low life the ...

Vanity Fair quotes former housemate Tommy Gioiosa as saying. Gioiosa, now 43 – who lived with Rose in a Cincinnati condo from 1979 to 1984 and was his friend until 1987 – “would do whatever ...

For maybe 7,500 words--felt like 75,000--we paid attention to the mewlings of convicted felon Tommy Gioiosa. Because Gioiosa had been a live-in gofer/sycophant of Rose’s, and a man scorned on ...

The check that started it all Janszen was introduced to Rose through Rose's longtime friend and sometimes housemate Tommy Gioiosa in the mid- to late 1980s. Janszen had earned such a spot in Rose ...