Pete Rose to remain barred from Cooperstown amid Manfred’s ruling.
By William Chase
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is not lifting the lifetime ban on Pete Rose.
Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader was banned from baseball for his part in gambling on the Cincinnati Reds as a player and manager, and has been barred from the sport since 1989.
BREAKING: MLB decides not to lift lifetime ban on Pete Rose. (via @TJQuinnESPN & @nytimes) pic.twitter.com/BOgPdO7wxD
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 14, 2015
Support for Charlie Hustle has only increased over the years.
Many believe it is time to end the ban, and put him into Cooperstown.
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He was even welcomed back by the Cincinnati Reds for the All-Star game festivities this past season, and was hired by Fox Sports as an analyst.
The only question I have is, if baseball ever decides to put Rose in, what about Shoeless Joe Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter who, along with the rest of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, was tried for similar acts — only to be acquitted in 1921 — yet was still banished by the sport?
Many bring up the steroids-era, and those players that were associated with taking part in PED’s. While baseball never had any rules barring PED-use initially, there has always been rules in place regarding gambling — The Cardinal Sin of Baseball.
Maybe Pete is in Cooperstown by now if he had fessed up sooner — he admitted it in 2004 — or if he even showed the slightest bit of contrition when initial light to his gambling came by way of the Dowd Report— a 225-page report by John Dowd, Special Counsel to the Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti; an investigation into the events which spanned four months.
The question remains: if Pete ever gets in, what about Shoeless Joe?