Pete Rose uses Astros saga to ask for reinstatement
I have always been in favor of the lifetime ban and excluding Pete from The Hall. (At least until after his death.) I have to say over the past few years I have been moderating that opinion. I don't know that Pete has "reformed" as he suggests but his achievements merit a place in Cooperstown.
Side question- Has anyone else been there? I went with my dad, a couple of brothers and a nephew. My son was in the service and couldn't make it. I can't wait until my grandson is a few years older and the three of us make the journey together.
Pete Rose asked commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday morning to remove his name from Major League Baseball's ineligible list, which would allow the all-time hits leader to be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame.
In a petition sent to the MLB commissioner's office and obtained by ESPN, Rose and his lawyers argue that Manfred has recently opted not to punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and, as a result, should end Rose's 30½-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The lawyers say that Rose's lifetime ban is "vastly disproportionate" when compared with MLB's punishments of players who took performance-enhancing drugs and the players involved in the sign-stealing schemes by the 2017 Houston Astros.
In the early 1980s, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were placed on MLB's ineligible list by commissioner Bowie Kuhn for accepting jobs as greeters at Atlantic City casinos. But in 1985, commissioner Peter Ueberroth removed Mantle and Mays from the ineligible list, saying, "The world has changed."
Mantle and Mays are in the Hall of Fame.
I have always been in favor of the lifetime ban and excluding Pete from The Hall. (At least until after his death.) I have to say over the past few years I have been moderating that opinion. I don't know that Pete has "reformed" as he suggests but his achievements merit a place in Cooperstown.
Side question- Has anyone else been there? I went with my dad, a couple of brothers and a nephew. My son was in the service and couldn't make it. I can't wait until my grandson is a few years older and the three of us make the journey together.