Pete Rose, whose career ended with his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 due to his gambling on baseball, and on his own team, was reinstated, along with "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the rest of the Black Sox of 1919, by Commissioner Rob Manfred, who announced additionally that from this point, "lifetime" bans will end with the passing of a banned individual. Rose passed away last fall.
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It wasn't so long ago that president Trump had stumped for Rose's reinstatement, though his motives weren't exactly honest. He just wanted something else to take credit for, and you know he will.
There are those who feel Manfred made a mistake, because this would open the door for accused cheaters like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens to finally get into the Hall as well. Time will tell.
2 comments:
I think the Clemens/Bonds comparison is inprecise. They were on the Baseball Writers' ballot for ten years. They COULD have been voted in. (And for reasons having to do with MLB's fuzzy rules about PEDs, I think they should have been; cf ARod, who should have known better.)
In any case, when Bart Giamatti imposed a lifetime ban on Rose, I had concluded that when Rose was dead, he'd become eligible.
Imprecise, maybe, Rog, but I think that's what the detractors are worried about.
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