Via Newsmax:
A signed baseball is not a political endorsement, an attorney for Cincinnati Reds hitting legend Pete Rose said Monday, and he’s not even sure how GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump got a hold of an autographed baseball that he showed through his Twitter page Sunday night.
“We do not know how Mr. Trump got the ball,” the attorney, Ray Genco, told The Washington Post, responding to several reports that Rose had endorsed Trump after the candidate showed a picture of a signed baseball with a personal message written on it via Twitter.
“I can’t authenticate the ball from some Twitter picture,” said Genco. “I can’t speak to how Trump got the ball. Pete didn’t send it. I made that clear.”
Sunday night, Trump tweeted a picture of a signed baseball, on which the words “Please make America great again” came above a signature purported to be Rose’s, and thanked him for the gift.