About five months after his death, MLB appears to be considering the reinstatement of former first baseman, third baseman and outfielder Pete Rose.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has received a request from Rose’s family to remove him from MLB’s permanently ineligible list, according to a Saturday night report from ESPN’s Don Van Natta
Pete Rose could be removed from baseball’s permanently ineligible list
Rose, who was banned from baseball amid allegations that he bet on the Cincinnati Reds while managing them, died at the age of 83 on September 30.
“The commissioner was respectful, kind and actively participated in productive discussions about Rose’s removal from the ineligible list,” the family’s attorney Jeffrey Lenkov told Van Natta.
Rose has been banned from baseball since 1989, when he reached an agreement with commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to avoid further punishment by voluntarily joining baseball’s permanently ineligible list.
The news of the alleged delivery of the petition comes a day after President Donald Trump suggested he would pardon Rose for unspecified crimes (Rose served five months in prison in 1990 for tax evasion).
Rose played 24 years for the Reds, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Montreal Expos, and accumulated 4,256 hits, the most in MLB.
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