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Rose confided that he had sold his famous jewel-encrusted Hickock Belt, given to him as Sports Player of the Year, to a baseball collector named Dennis Walker. Walker later turned up dead in a Las Vegas hotel, his body badly decomposed. According to Janszen, Rose said Walker paid him $20,000 cash for the belt and bought a lot of other memorabilia. Janszen remembers that Walker also supposedly gave Rose a bank certificate drawn on an offshore South Pacific bank, so it would not be traced as income to Rose. A twist to the Walker story is that much of the baseball memorabilia collected by him over the years, including the Rose items, disappeared after Walker's death. In the summer of 1987, Rose sent Janszen to New York in an aborted attempt to retrieve part of the collection. In 1988, the syndicated television series "Unsolved Mysteries" contacted Janszen to see if Rose would do an interview on the missing memorabilia. Janszen remembers Rose's response: "Hell, I don't want to do that show, Paul. They'll start digging and find out I got paid cash for some of that stuff. That'll bring the IRS on me