Pete Rose is eligible for Hall of Fame after years of ineligibility
USA TODAY SPORTS ‘BOB NIGHTENGALE explains what Pete Rose means to players in the Hall of Fame and steroid era.
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Apparently, even those involved with your own team are OK to gamble in baseball while making ock laughs from the most sacred rules of the sport.
In a journalism school, we learn that the dead cannot be honored.
Who knew that if you die, everything could be forgiven?
Pete Rose, who lied for 15 years before dying at the age of 83 in September 2024 in baseball, betting in baseball as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, had the chance for the Hall of Fame, revived by Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Manfred announced the eve of Pete Rose Day in Cincinnati that Rose had lifted the baseball ban, making him eligible for the first time in the Hall of Fame.
Manfred cleared everyone from the 1919 Black Socks scandal, which intentionally corrected the game during the World Series, deciding that the player’s permanent ineligibility would end after death.
“It’s a serious, dark day for baseball,” Marcus Giamatti, the 63-year-old son of late former commissioner Bert Giamatti, who permanently halted Rose in 1989, told USA Today Sports. “For my father, it was about defending the integrity of baseball. Now, without integrity, I believe that baseball games will no longer exist, as we know.
“The basic principle is that the game is built, fair play, and its integrity is compromised. And the fans are the losers. I don’t know how you can go see the fans go knowing what they are seeing is real and may not be fair. That’s a truly scary idea.”
With Rose, who has recorded 4,256 career hits, ends up in Cooperstown, what will stop Jaw without shoes and others in black socks? Come Barry Bond and Roger Clemens. Alex Rodriguez, forget about your yearly drug termination. 2017 Houston Astros? Anyway, I was immune.
“If you put him in, the floodgates are now open,” Giamatti says. “Sure, why not let everyone inside? He did nothing to reconstruct his life. He never regretted or rehabilitated himself by going to anonymous gambler or something like that. He didn’t do that.
“He probably opened the door for a second chance, but he didn’t do that, so it’s a controversy. So, it’s not even arguing.”
Of course, Rose’s return to work will not automatically place him in the Hall of Fame. Donald Trump, who met Manfred on April 16th, believes that he’s been said in X, but he still has to be elected.
Rose, who has never participated in the official BBWAA vote, will be appointed to the Hall of Fame Historical Overview Committee and will be voted for the 2027 classic baseball era committee. He was elected in the summer of 2028 and requires at least 12 votes by a committee from 16 members, consisting of four former players, four executives, four writers and four historians.
“I want to be on that committee,” said the former All-Star outfielder, whose career overlapped with Rose. “I vote for ‘no’ on the heartbeat and try to persuade everyone to do the same thing. He felt embarrassed about the game. He was inducted into the Field Hall of Fame, but he ruined the integrity of the game from the field. ”
The former GM, who is also a candidate to join the committee, said: “This guy was putting his career at risk to win his bet as a manager. He couldn’t care much about his health.
“You let this go and open yourself up to the biggest gambling scandal in baseball history. It makes Rule 21 (prohibiting players, umpires and other league officials from betting on baseball games) a complete joke.”
Manfred became the first commissioner since he even considered lifting the lifetime ban after rejecting Rose’s bid to be resurrected while he was alive.
Giamatoti was the one who hung the rose. Fay Vincent, who took over Giamatti after his sudden death, remained strongly opposed to the lifting of Rose’s ban before his death in February. Bud Selig, who replaced and served as a committee member of Vincent from 1992 to 2015, has also continued to express his strong opposition to Rose’s return to work.
“It is my preference not to interfere with the decisions made by the previous Commissioner, but Mr. Rose was not permanently placed on the unqualified list by the Commissioner’s lawsuit, but rather as a result of a potential lawsuit with the Commissioner’s office in 1989. My decision today coincides with the expected contract of Commissioner Giamati.”
Manfred argued that the lifetime ban was a serious enough punishment, denying that Trump was persuaded to lift the ban, and said he visited him in December when Rose’s family told him he would reevaluate it.
What’s more, MLB says they don’t put roses in the Hall of Fame.
“Committee’s comments were completely reasonable given that at the time, the Hall of Fame had no rules banning people on the list of permanently ineligible from Hall of Fame considerations,” Manfred said. “In fact, Joe Jackson, without shoes, was given the opportunity to vote again in 1936 and 1946.”
It is now in the museum and announced that players who were permanently banned from baseball in 1991 were not eligible.
“It’s like there’s no rules,” Giamatti says. “It’s like when you die, you can be resurrected and they can turn you back together. There are no asterisks or anything like that.
“You’re supposed to consider character, sportsmanship, and integrity. He doesn’t check those boxes.”
In addition to Rose’s entry into baseball gambling, he was charged by an unidentified woman in a defamous loss lawsuit — filed by Rose against former federal prosecutor John Dowd — that he had a sexual relationship with her before she was 16 years old. Rose, who married two children at the time, admitted to the relationship in court documents released in 2017, but said she was 16 years old and was in the age of consent.
Giamatti, an actor, musician, writer and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, is particularly bothered that no one at MLB has bothered him or his younger brother, the award-winning actor Paul Giamatti. They don’t know Rose personally, but they know the threat of stress, heartache and the death that follows. His father is almost dying of a sudden heart attack at the age of 51, just eight days after Rose’s permanent suspension.
“What’s frustrating is that no one ever talked to me or my family about it,” Giamatti said. But no one would say to me or my brother, “What is your side of the argument? What do you think about this now?”
“They don’t want to talk to me and hear all the things I have to say, or what we’ve experienced as a family, the incredible amount of pressure, the threat of death still the FBI has, and all the backlash my father faced.
“It was a really ugly, ugly time.
“Now it’s going to be a ugly time for the game, along with everything my dad fought to maintain his danger.”
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