Report: MLB considering petition to reinstate Pete Rose
Updated: 7:49 AM EST Mar 2, 2025
MINUTES. RACHEL, ERICA. THANK YOU. NEW. THIS MORNING, A PETITION TO REINSTATE CINCINNATI REDS LEGEND PETE ROSE, REPORTEDLY UNDER CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMISSIONER OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. NOW, THAT MOVE COULD OPEN THE DOOR TO COOPERSTOWN FOR THE LATE HIT KING WLWT NEWS FIVE’S RICHARD CHILES JOINS US LIVE FROM GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK WITH DETAILS ON THIS BID. GOOD MORNING, RICHARD. WELL, LOTS OF MOVING PARTS TO THIS ONE, BUT IT IS MOVING FORWARD LIKE THAT. HEADFIRST SLIDE WITH THE TENACITY THAT PETE ROSE IS FAMOUS FOR. THE PUSH TO REINSTATE THE HIT KING, GETTING A BIG BOOST, PERHAPS PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKING THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON FRIDAY THAT HE WOULD PARDON PETE ROSE, PUSHING MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. NOW, WE UNDERSTAND THAT ROB MANFRED, THE COMMISSIONER, ALSO CONSIDERING THE PETITION TO REINSTATE PETE ROSE, A LOT OF THESE. CONVERSATIONS, INCLUDING FAN ROSE, PETE ROSE’S DAUGHTER, AS WELL AS CALIFORNIA LAWYER. THEY ATTENDED A MEETING WITH PEOPLE GOING BACK TO DECEMBER, TRYING TO GET A CHANCE TO SEE WHERE THE STANCE WOULD BE FOR PETE ROSE BEING RENEWED IN BASEBALL, PETE WAS PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM THE GAME GOING BACK TO 1989 FOR GAMBLING ALLEGATIONS, BUT HE APPLIED FOR REINSTATEMENT NUMEROUS TIMES OVER THE YEARS. NOW, AS RECENTLY AS 2015, MANFRED DENIED THE APPLICATION FOR REINSTATEMENT. BUT WITH THE BAN STILL IN PLACE, ROSE CAN’T BE INDUCTED IN THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME. LOTS OF FOLKS, THOUGH, WHO SUPPORT PETE ROSE AND KNEW HIM PERSONALLY, SAY THAT HAVING THE PRESIDENT BEHIND THIS IS CERTAINLY ADDING A BIG PUSH. I THINK IT’S GREAT NEWS FOR PETE. IT CAN DO NOTHING BUT HELP BUT GET HIM INTO THE HALL OF FAME. IF HE CAN GET THE COMMISSIONER AND BASEBALL HALL OF FAME TO START TALKING. AND, YOU KNOW, HE DESERVES TO BE IN THE HALL OF FAME. OUR BASEBALL SEASON OPENING UP HERE MARCH THE 26TH, WHEN THE REDS ARE GOING TO HOST THE GIANTS. BUT AGAIN, A BIG BOOST FOR REDS FANS HOPING TO SEE PETE ROSE AGAIN REINSTATED POSTHUMOUSLY, PERHAPS ENTERING THE HALL OF FAME. REPORTING LI
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Report: MLB considering petition to reinstate Pete Rose
Updated: 7:49 AM EST Mar 2, 2025
A petition to reinstate Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose is reportedly under consideration by the commissioner of Major League Baseball.It’s a move that could open the door to Cooperstown for the late Hit King.A source familiar with the talks anonymously told the Associated Press that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is considering removing the Cincinnati native from the ineligible list, more than 35 years after he was placed there.ESPN was the first to report on a petition to reinstate Rose, filed by his former lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov. The Southern California lawyer attended a December meeting with Rose’s daughter, Fawn, Commissioner Manfred, and an MLB executive in the Commissioner’s Office before filing that petition on Jan. 8.Rose was permanently banned from Major League Baseball over gambling allegations in 1989. He applied for reinstatement numerous times over the years before his death back in September.As recently as 2015, Manfred denied his application into the Baseball Hall of Fame. With the ban still in place, Rose cannot be inducted alongside other greats of the game.The push to reinstate Rose and get him into the Hall of Fame got some serious backing this weekend.President Donald Trump posted on social media on Friday night that he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose.” Trump posted on Truth Social that Rose “shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.”Trump did not specifically mention Rose’s tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose “over the next few weeks.”
A petition to reinstate Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose is reportedly under consideration by the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
It’s a move that could open the door to Cooperstown for the late Hit King.
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A source familiar with the talks anonymously told the Associated Press that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is considering removing the Cincinnati native from the ineligible list, more than 35 years after he was placed there.
ESPN was the first to report on a petition to reinstate Rose, filed by his former lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov. The Southern California lawyer attended a December meeting with Rose’s daughter, Fawn, Commissioner Manfred, and an MLB executive in the Commissioner’s Office before filing that petition on Jan. 8.
Rose was permanently banned from Major League Baseball over gambling allegations in 1989. He applied for reinstatement numerous times over the years before his death back in September.
As recently as 2015, Manfred denied his application into the Baseball Hall of Fame. With the ban still in place, Rose cannot be inducted alongside other greats of the game.
The push to reinstate Rose and get him into the Hall of Fame got some serious backing this weekend.
President Donald Trump posted on social media on Friday night that he plans to issue “a complete PARDON of Pete Rose.” Trump posted on Truth Social that Rose “shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.”
Trump did not specifically mention Rose’s tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.
The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose “over the next few weeks.”
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