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The longtime advertiser of Cincinnati Reds, Marty Brennaman, expressed his frustration with regard to the Calendar of the Major Baseball League (MLB) of the elimination of Pete Rose from the permanently ineligible list.
Brennaman, 82, who announced Reds matches from 1974 to 2019, said MLB for Rose to be eligible for the baseball renowned temple only after his death “in the wrong direction to follow”.
“I just felt that he had served his prison sentence, if you want, much longer that he should really have done it. And the fact that they rushed to make him eligible in a few months, for me, was the wrong way to do business,” Brennaman told Tmz.
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Pete Rose’s daughter, Fawn Rose, speaks as players in the renowned temple of the Reds, from left to right, George Foster, Barry Larkin and Eric Davis listen to during the events of Pete Rose Night before a baseball match between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in Cincinnati. (APPO PHOTO / CAROLYN KASTER)
“I just try to reconcile myself in my mind why they waited as long as they did. And then, in a few months after the death of Pete in September, now they go out, and they are largely announced that they raised the suspension and that he and` Shoeless ” Joe Jackson – there can be others that I have not even aware of the flame
Brennaman said Rose had accepted the fact that he would not make the featball renowned temple while he was alive.
“He had taken control with the fact that this would not have taken place before his death. He said so much to a certain number of different people. He obviously wanted it to happen when he could take advantage of it. At the same time, he made the comment that being in the renowned temple
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Pete Rose goes to his fans during the unveiling of a bronze statue which was dedicated to him at the Great American Ball Park on Saturday June 17, 2017. (Imagn)
“So, obviously, he thought of his children and improved the heritage which was sometimes very, very tarnished, we all know it. And many things with which Pete was involved was on his own.
Despite Rose’s wishes to have attended her potential induction of the fame, Brennaman said Rose would take comfort that his family could at least enjoy it.
“But I think that at the end of the day, if the best possible was to go for his family, it would probably be satisfactory for him at the moment.”
Marty Brennaman was the Reds broadcaster from 1974 to 2019. (Imagn)
Rose is the King of the MLB with 4,256 careers in career. He was the player par excellence of the National League in 1974 and was an All-Star of 17 times, a triple champion of World Series and a triple champion in the stick.
However, the Reds star has become a polarizing figure when the news of his game on games rocked the world of sport. Rose received a life ban from MLB in 1989, but after Tuesday’s announcement, he will be eligible for the first time.
