Pete Rose's return to work by MLB is stoking the world of sports

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose “without shoes” Joe Jackson and other dead players on Tuesday from the league's permanently ineligible list.

As a result, Rose is MLB's greatest hit leader ever. Jackson; he is also eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Rose and Jackson are notorious figures in MLB history, and their legacy was hurt by gambling in the game.

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MLB discovered he gambled as both a player and manager with the Cincinnati Reds, but insisted he would never bet on losing to his team. Rose denied the charges until 2004. He called for recovery several times, but was not welcomed by MLB before his death in September 2024.

Rose predicted that he would not create a baseball hall of fame just 10 days before his death.

News about Rose shocked the world of baseball, and fans soon began lobbying to direct Rose to the Hall of Fame.

MLB removes Pete Rose.

Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds will face the Atlanta Braves on August 2, 1978. (AP photos, files)

Baseball fans have been debating Rose Hall of Fame qualifications for years.

Former MLB pitcher John Locker posted, “Pete Rose deserves to see his name in the Hall of Fame.”

However, not everyone, such as veteran sportshost Chris Rose, shares the same view.

“Pete Rose didn't give Pete Rose a shot of the Baseball Hall of Fame,” Chris Rose explained in a reaction video posted on social media. “We're always trying to point our fingers at someone else about why we can't do this or why we couldn't give that shot. My guess is that if Pete Rose looked at herself in the mirror and said, 'You have to clean up your actions', then I think we'd have the opportunity to do this.

“In the 15 years since then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti said, 'Pete, you're out,' he refused to bet on baseball. When did he finally do it? When he was able to turn the money quickly, when he was able to publish a book. And he said, “Yeah, I put my bet on baseball, but I put my bet on my team to win when I was in control.”

Manfred wrote about his decision in a letter to lawyer Jeffrey M. Lenkoff.

File – Former Philadelphia Phillies player Pete Rose tilts his hat to fans on August 7, 2022, alumni day in Philadelphia. (AP Photos/Matt Rourke, File)

“Obviously, those who are not with us can't represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” Manfred wrote in a letter obtained by ESPN. “And it's hard to imagine a penalty that has a more deterrent effect than a lifelong one that is not tolerant, but rather has remained a lifelong thing. Therefore, I concluded that permanent ineligibility will end upon passage of a disciplined individual and Mr. Rose will be permanently removed from the ineligible list.”

President Donald Trump, who met Manfred last month, announced in March that he had forgiven Rose for serving in prison for five months in 1990. In 2017, Rose was accused of legal rape due to suspicions of being encountered decades ago.

“Major League baseball didn't have the courage or the good sense to put Pete Rose, also known as the “Charlie Hustle,” into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now he is dead. Trump posted.

Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame Pete Rose will adjust the cap when filming the microphone at a pregame ceremony for the bronze statue's announcement at the Great American Ballpark in downtown Cincinnati on June 17, 2017. (image)

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Rose has a good shot to get into the hole, but Jackson's chances are small for everyone. He is widely assumed to have participated in the 1919 Black Socks scandal, and was banned from the game that year to fix the World Series.

As a result of Manfred's decision, 17 deceased players have been removed from the MLB permanently ineligible list.

Ryan Morik of Fox News contributed to this report.

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