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The road to raise Pete to Cooperstown took a huge step forward Tuesday.
Rose, the hit of all the MLB, which was ousted for the game, was removed from the ineligible list of the major baseball league after the MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, announced that the ineligibility of the players of the game ends when they died.
“Obviously, a person who is no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” wrote Manfred in a letter, obtained by ESPN, to the lawyer Jeffrey Mr. Lenkov. “In addition, it is difficult to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent than that which lasts a whole life without suspected. Consequently, I concluded that permanent ineligibility ends with the passage of the disciplined individual, and Mr. Rose will be withdrawn from the ineligible permanent list.”
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The Inquirer / Sam Greene Pete Rose, the hit of all time in baseball, was deemed ineligible to the temple of renown in 1989 for having bet on baseball. The Grand Reds Pete Rose holds a star bearing his name before the MLB National League match between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres at the Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati on Friday, June 24, 2016. (Imagn)
MLB made this announcement in a press release.
“This question has never been officially addressed by Major League Baseball, but a request submitted by the family of Pete Rose has been incumbent on the commissioner’s office to make a political decision on this unprecedented issue in the modern era while Mr. Rose is the first prohibited first person after the commissioner’s mandate during the adoption of the disciplined individual,” said MLB.
Rose finally admitted that he had played in 2004 after years to plead her innocence. He died last September and predicted 10 days before his death that he would not make the temple of fame until after his death, if at all.
It was found that Rose played on the Reds, to win, when he was both a manager and a player.
President Donald Trump announced in March that he would forgive Rose, who served five months in prison in 1990 and, in 2017, was also accused of statutory rape of an alleged decades before.
File – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in bat action against the Braves of Atlanta in Atlanta, on August 2, 1978. On the left, the receiver of Atlanta Joe Nolan. (AP photo, file)
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“Major League Baseball did not have the courage or decency to set fire, Grand Pete Rose, also known as” Charlie Hustle “, in the reproductive temple of baseball. Now, he is dead, will never feel the thrill of being selected, even if he was a much better player than most of those who did, and can only be named posthumous. Trump posted.
“Anyway, in the coming weeks, I will sign a complete forgiveness of Pete Rose, who should not have played on baseball, but only bet on the victory of his team. He never bet against himself, nor the other team. He was most successful, by far, in the history of baseball, and won more matches than anyone in the history of sport. Baseball fame! “
Trump and Manfred met last month.
In 1991, two years after Rose was prohibited by A. Bartlett Giamatti, the temple of national baseball renown voted to make these ineligibles from baseball also ineligible for potential induction in Cooperstown. It is not yet clear when Rose is ready for a vote, but ESPN notes that it will probably be up to the Committee of the Age of Classic Baseball, which considers the players whose career ended more than 15 years ago. They do not meet before December 2027, and he would need 12 of the 16 votes to enter.
Manfred’s decision occurs one day before the Reds host “Pete Rose Night”. Rose had requested reintegration on several occasions, but Manfred refused, citing at one point a “risk of future violation”.
The temple of the replacement of Cincinnati Reds, Pete Rose, adjusts his cap while he takes the microphone during a pre-match ceremony for the unveiling of the bronze statue of Pete Rose installed outside the stadium before the match of the National League of the MLB between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers of Los Angeles of Los Angeles. (Imagn)
The decision also increases the chances of Joe Jackson’s “Shoeless” to enter Cooperstown. It is largely supposed to have participated in the 1919 Black Sox scandal – seven others were then prohibited from the game for having repaired the World Series that year.
In total, 17 players are now eligible for baseball.
It is a story in development. Please come back for more updates.
