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Pete Rose & 1919 Black Sox Eligible For Baseball Hall Of Fame After MLB Commissioner’s Ruling
Pete Rose, banned from baseball for life in 1989, will be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame after a ruling by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Rob Manfred ruled that MLB ’s policy shall be that “permanent ineligibility ends upon the passing of the disciplined individual.” Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader and a 17-time All-Star, died in September at age 83. Indeed, while promoting the excellent HBO limited series Charlie Hustle & The Matter of Pete Rose last year, the MLB icon estimated that “gambling cost me a hundred million [dollars]. Those eight — a group that includes “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, a career .356 hitter, along with Arnold “Chick” Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar “Happy” Felsch, Fred McMullin, Charles “Swede” Risberg, George “Buck” Weaver and Claude “Lefty” Williams — were all reinstated today along with Rose and eight other players on the list.
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