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Baseball fans are already calling for Pete Rose to enter the Hall of Fame, after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that he, along with 16 deceased others, including “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, was taken by the permanently unjustified list on Tuesday.
However, Manfred is not the one who would be to place Rose in the sacred halls of Cooperstown, as Espn’s Tony Kornheiser reminded all of these fans on Tuesday.
“Rob Manfred does not put you in the Hall of Fame. Baseball writers who are members put you in the Hall of Fame,” Kornheiser said of “Forgive interrupt.”
“These baseball writers, as we know well, are Guardians of the Game. They take violations very seriously. Joe Jackson Fixed Games, OK? Pete Rose Bet as manager of a team. It’s not going away.”
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Former Philadelphia Phillies player Pete Rose Tip his hat to fans during an alumni day on August 7, 2022 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Fans rushed to social media to express their dissatisfaction, which MLB had been waiting so far to take Rose from his permanently unjustified list. By that, many thought the Hall of Fame was the right next step to correct Rose’s absence from the game since the early 1990s.
Kornheiser, however, brought up another class of baseball players that baseball writers have not voted into the hall yet.
“You know who else is eligible for the Hall of Fame right now? Barry Bonds is justified, Mark McGwire is justified,” he said. “Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, they are justified. Are they coming into something soon? Don’t look like this from the vote.”
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Now it is not to say that Kornheiser does not want to see Rose in the hall one day.
“As you know, Mike (Wilbon), I would put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame,” he added. “I would put his sins on the plaque and his results on the plaque. I agree that when your life is gone, it’s ok to be eligible for something. But I don’t see Pete Rose as a first-ballot hall of famer. I just don’t.”
Rose, MLB’s head of all times hits, was added to the permanently unjustified list after it was found that he gambles at stake while he was as a player and manager. Rose initially denied the accusations, but in 2004 he came clean and admitted games.
Pete Rose during a Reds game as a player/manager in 1989. (US Today Sports)
Manfred announced that the players’ unmetion from the game ends after their death.
“Obviously, a person who is no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” Manfred wrote in a letter, obtained by ESPN, to lawyer Jeffrey M. Lenkov.
“In addition, it is hard to imagine a punishment that has more deterrent than one that lasts life without postponement. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent non -eligibility ends on the disciplined individual, and Mr. Rose will be removed from the permanently unjustified list.”
President Donald Trump announced in March that he would pardon Rose, who served five months in prison in 1990. In 2017, Rose was charged with statutory rape from a meeting decades earlier.
Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose in 1985. (IMagn)
“Major League Baseball did not have the courage or decency to put the late, big, Pete Rose, also known as ‘Charlie Hustle’, into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now he is dead, will never experience the tension of being chosen, even if he was a much better player than most of those who made it, and can only be named poshumøst. Trump posted.
Rose may be eligible for the Hall of Fame now, but it will be up to baseball writers to vote him to make it officially.
