Pete Rose Is Now Eligible to Enter the Hall of Fame After Being Removed From MLB’s Banned List

According to the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose will be eligible for enshrinement beginning in 2027. According to Jane Forbes Clark: “The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball’s permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration,”. “Major League Baseball’s decision to remove deceased individuals from […] The post Pete Rose Is Now Eligible to Enter the Hall of Fame After Being Removed From MLB’s Banned List appeared first on BlackSportsOnline.

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Pete Rose Is Now Eligible to Enter the Hall of Fame After Being Removed From MLB’s Banned List

According to the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose will be eligible for enshrinement beginning in 2027. According to Jane Forbes Clark:

“The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball’s permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration,”.

“Major League Baseball’s decision to remove deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list will allow for the Hall of Fame candidacy of such individuals to now be considered.”

The late Pete Rose is no longer prohibited from playing baseball. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is taking the legendary Cincinnati Reds player and a number of other players off the league’s list of players who are forever ineligible, which might lead to his eventual induction into Cooperstown.

Manfred revealed that the athletes’ lifetime ban will be revoked once they pass away, which was stunning news to hear on Tuesday. When Rose was managing the Reds in 1989, he was banned for game betting.

The harsh penalty prevented him from ever being inducted into the Hall of Fame, even though he was the “Hit King” and among the best ever to set foot on a baseball diamond.

Pete Rose and his posthumous recognition

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson and his teammates, who famously rigged the 1919 World Series, are also impacted by the verdict. Rose stated prior to his death that he did not want the posthumous recognition, but the people at the Baseball Hall now have a choice to make.

On January 8, however, Rose’s family submitted a request to have him taken off of MLB’s list of ineligible players. President Donald Trump even intervened, stating:

“Major League Baseball didn’t have the courage or decency to put the late, great, Pete Rose, also known as ‘Charlie Hustle,’ into the Baseball Hall of Fame.”

“Now he is dead, will never experience the thrill of being selected, even though he was a FAR BETTER PLAYER than most who made it, and can only be named posthumously. WHAT A SHAME!”

“Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only ever on HIS TEAM WINNING,” “He never bet against himself, or the other team.”

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