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Longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman has expressed his dissatisfaction with the timing of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Brennaman, 82, who announced the Reds game between 1974 and 2019, said he was eligible for the baseball hall of fame a few months after MLB was “the wrong way.”
“I felt he served prison time. If you had to, he really did that much longer than he had to. And the fact that they rushed him to qualify for me within a few months was the wrong way to do business,” Brennaman told TMZ.
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Pete Rose's daughter, Fawn Rose, speaks as a Reds Hall of Fame player, left to left to right during the Pete Rose Night event, before a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. (AP Photo/Caroline Custer)
“I'm trying to ease in my mind why they were waiting for them to do it, and within months of Pete's death in September, they came out.
Brennaman said Rose agreed to the fact that he would not make a baseball hall of fame while he was alive.
“He's come to grasp the fact that it won't happen until he dies. He told a lot of different people. He wanted to make it happen while he was enjoying it. At the same time, he commented that the Hall of Fame was more for his family than anyone else,” Brennaman said.
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Pete is waving to his fans during the announcement of a bronze statue dedicated to him at the Great American Ballpark on Saturday, June 17th, 2017. (image)
“So obviously he was thinking about his children, and sometimes he was strengthening a very hurtful legacy. And a lot of the things Pete was involved in was his own. No one could compete for it.
Despite Rose's desire to witness the induction of a potential Hall of Fame, Brennaman said he would be comforted that Rose could at least enjoy it.
“But at the end of the day, I think the best thing he can get is going for his family, and that's probably going to be satisfying for him now.”
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Marty Brennaman was a Reds broadcaster from 1974 to 2019. (image)
Rose is MLB's hit king with 4,256 career hits. He was a National League MVP in 1974, 17 All-Stars, three World Series champions and three batting champions.
However, the Reds star became a person who polarized when news of his gambling in the game shook the world of sports. Rose received a lifetime ban from MLB in 1989, but is eligible to vote for the first time since the announcement Tuesday.
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