More lies by Gordon Riese

I'll keep this simple and to the point. There's another lie hanging around Gordon Riese's neck. This is his listing in the Portland State Hall of Fame Some of you know I have a history of sniffing out guys who make false claims about their playing records. This one was easy. I grew up in KC and never heard of this guy. My alarms are going off, so I checked out the records... He never played for the Royals. Based on his age, I checked the KC Athletics for good measure, thinking there might be some confusion... nothing there either. I'll lay out the data for everyone: Royals batting records Royals pitching records (Riese was a pitcher in college) Athletics batting records Athletics pitching record For final measure, I checked and sure enough, he never played major league ball anywhere. Having done this awhile, I can tell you there are two avenues of escape for Riese. I'm not going to say them here. If this part of the story gets into the mainstream media, I'd like to see him come up with the response himself. But I still think the man is a complete fraud, and believe at this point we have a reasonable suspicion to question the death threats he claims to have received.