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The Reds paid tribute to Pete Rose, a day after baseball’s career hits leader was removed from MLB's permanent ineligibility list.
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EssentiallySports on MSNLate Reds Legend’s Daughter Reveals Her Only Regret After Robert Manfred & MLB Overturn Permanent BanIt is strange how specific wins can feel like heartbreak. The post Late Reds Legend’s Daughter Reveals Her Only Regret After Robert Manfred & MLB Overturn Permanent Ban appeared first on EssentiallySports.
NEW YORK (AP) — Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death.
Marty Brennaman: "(Pete Rose) dies and dammit, five months later they elect to make him eligible again. I've got a real problem with that."
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It was more than 100 years ago that Shoeless Joe Jackson was among eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. It's been more than 35 years since Pete Rose suffered the same fate after betting on the sport as a player and manager of the Cincinnati Reds in the mid-1980s.
Now that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other deceased players from the game's "permanently ineligible list," whatever former stars deemed deserving based on their on-field accomplishments should,