Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred reviews whether to reintroduce the late Pete Rose from Baseboll’s unjustified list, several stores reported.
The move comes after President Donald Trump blasted MLB in a social media post late Friday for Rose’s life ban in 1989 for games. Trump said he was going to forgive Rose, who died September 30, 2024, 83 years of age.
At the end of 2024, Rose lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov and Rose’s daughter, Fawn Rose, met with Manfred about the Rose Fall and then submitted a petition that requested reinstatement, according to reports.
ESPN said the goal of Rose’s family is to finally see the MLB meetings all the time (4,256) introduced in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
According to the Hall of Fame rules, everyone on Baseboll’s unjustified list is not eligible to be introduced.
Rose was not declared eligible after an investigation found that he was playing at Cincinnati Reds while the team’s manager. In 2004, he admitted that he invested in baseball while handling the reds.
He never faced criminal charges in relation to games. In 1990, he spent five months in prison after invoking himself guilty of tax evasion charges.
It was not clear on which grounds Trump thought he would issue a pardon when he published this on his truth social account:
“Major League Baseball did not have the courage or decency to put the late, big, Pete Rose, also known as ‘Charlie Hustle’, into the baseball Hall of Fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the excitement to be chosen, even though he was a much better player than most of them who did it, and can only be named.
“Anyway, Over the Next Few Weeks I Will Be Signing A Complete Pardon of Pete Rose, Who Shouldn’t Have Been Gambling On Baseball, But Only Bet On His Team Winning. Anyone in Sports History. Baseball, which is Dying All Over the Place, Should Get Off Its Fat, Lazy A–, And Elect Pete Rose, Even Though Far Too Late, Into the Baseball Hall of Fame!
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