MLB reinstates Pete Rose
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Tony Kornheiser, longtime ESPN personality, reminded all baseball fans of the only way Pete Rose can get into the Hall of Fame: The baseball writers.
Rose, MLB’s all-time leader in hits (4,256), voluntarily agreed with Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to a permanent ban on Aug. 23, 1989, following an investigation that concluded Rose bet on the Reds as both a player and manager. Manfred previously rejected Rose’s petition for reinstatement in 2015.
On a wet, breezy evening just off Pete Rose Way — with a BetMGM billboard beckoning beyond right field — ballplayers, coaches and fans welcomed a new MLB policy that wipes out bans for disgraced players after they die.
Pete Rose, 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and 14 others were posthumously removed from MLB's ineligible list, making Hall of Fame induction possible for all of them.
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