Pete Rose famously sparred with Mets hall-of-famer Bud Harrelson within the 1973 NLCS. Now, the Baseball Corridor of Fame in Cooperstown will weigh Rose’s case for entry as soon as once more now that he’s been posthumously faraway from the completely ineligible listing.
MLB introduced a brand new coverage choice Tuesday afternoon, with commissioner Rob Manfred deciding baseball bans will now finish when the people cross away. The choice successfully made Rose, who handed away September 30, 2024, on the age of 83, and 15 others eligible for the Corridor of Fame as soon as once more.
“I think it’s great,” Wright stated. “I got a chance to meet him years ago. One of the coolest autographs that I got, he signed a picture for me. And at the time, I don’t know how many hits I had, but whatever it was, he subtracted it from how many hits he had, and he put, ‘Long way to go,’ in the picture. So I thought that was really cool. I have that displayed proudly. I’m excited for him, deservingly. So I mean, he’s the hit king, right?”
Rose wasn’t simply MLB’s hit king, he was additionally the league’s king of controversy.
Whereas Rose may need been among the finest to swing a bat, he was banned by former commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989 for betting on baseball video games during which he performed in and managed. He confronted quite a few private points, starting from tax evasion to sexual misconduct. In 2016, Rose admitted to coming into right into a relationship with a minor within the Seventies. He was 30 years outdated on the time. Rose claimed that he didn’t know she was underage and that he didn’t have intercourse together with her outdoors of the state of Ohio.
Nonetheless, it additional tarnished an already tarnished legacy.
The character of Rose has been in query for years, and baseball has lengthy thought of character to be necessary relating to the Baseball Corridor of Fame, so necessary there’s a “character clause” that requires voters to think about integrity and sportsmanship. In what turned generally known as the “Pete Rose rule,” Corridor’s board determined to exclude all gamers on the completely ineligible listing from election. This choice was made in 1991, proper earlier than he would have been on the poll for the primary time.
However there’s a massive faction of baseball followers, former gamers and writers who don’t assume character must be a consider voting. It’s a museum that celebrates on-field accomplishments, and subsequently desires his 4,256 hits celebrated by a Corridor of Fame enshrinement.
Rose, in addition to “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, gained’t be voted in in a single day. The Historic Overview Committee will create a poll of eight names for the Traditional Baseball Period Committee, however they aren’t scheduled to fulfill once more till December 2027. If that’s the case, it’ll enable loads of time for the committee to resolve easy methods to proceed, and loads of time for decent takes in regards to the life, accomplishments and exploits of Rose.
MENDOZA’S WELL WISHES
Mendoza, a former Yankees bench coach, was “devastated” to see the ankle damage Oswaldo Cabrera sustained Monday evening in Seattle. The 2 Venezuelans had been shut when Mendoza was within the Bronx, including to the emotion of seeing the infielder carried off the sector in an ambulance.
“We are a family at the end of the day,” Mendoza stated. “We’re competing against each other, but we’re family. I got to meet him when he was first signed out of Venezuela. Watching him go down like that is just hard. Wishing him speedy recovery and a complete recovery. I know he’ll be back because this is a guy that all of his life, he’s had to fight. I know he’ll be fighting and he’ll be back on the field.”
PROSTATE PRESCREEN
The Mets supplied free prostate most cancers screening to males 40 and over at Citi Subject on Tuesday, courtesy of NewYork-Presbyterian. Final yr, 59-year-old fan Mike Kender, a Queens native, found he had prostate most cancers after getting examined on the identical occasion. Kender is now wholesome and returned to Citi Subject to encourage others to get checked.
Initially Printed: Could 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM EDT
