Pete Rose

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks at the SBJ CAA World Congress of Sport, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Rob Manfred says he discussed Pete Rose’s status with Donald Trump and will rule on reinstatement

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he discussed Pete Rose with President Donald Trump at a meeting two weeks ago and he plans to rule on a request to end the sport’s permanent ban of the career hits leader, who died in September.
 
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred meets with President Donald Trump at White House

 
Former Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose (14) meets with former teammates, left to right, Tommy Helms, Tom Browning, Cesar Geronimo, Tony Perez, and Eric Davis, during ceremonies celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rose breaking Ty Cobb's hit record prior to a baseball game between the Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Tommy Helms, a Reds second baseman who later managed in Pete Rose’s place in 1988-89, dies at 83

 
Los Angeles Kings; Wayne Gretzky (99) and teammate Luc Robitaille, on ice, celebrate Gretzky's scoring his NHL career record-setting goal No. 802 against Vancouver Canucks goalie Kirk McLean during the second period of an NHL hockey game at the Forum at Inglewood, Calif., March 23, 1994. (AP Photo/Eric Draper/File)

Alex Ovechkin surpassed Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goal count. Here are other ‘unbreakable’ sports records

 
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke is seen in the Las Vegas Review-Journal studio on June 24, 2011, in Las Vegas. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Norm Clarke, a Las Vegas celebrity columnist and former AP sports writer, dies at 82

 

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Pete Rose sits in the Washington Wild Things dugout before a Frontier League baseball game against the Lake Erie Crushers in Washington, Pa, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Manfred considering petition to have Rose posthumously removed from ineligible list, AP source says

 
Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona gestures as he speaks during spring training baseball practice at the team's training facility in Goodyear, Ariz., Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Terry Francona says his mind went right back to baseball after a needed year off

 
Former Philadelphia Phillies player Pete Rose tips his hat to fans during an alumni day event before a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals, Aug. 7, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Reds will wear No. 14 patch on jersey sleeve to honor Pete Rose, who died last year

 
Newly-elected Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki talks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Cooperstown, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Voter who passed on Ichiro for Hall of Fame still a mystery after 321 of 394 ballots released

 
Umpire Pat Hoberg (31) looks on during a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Angels, May 17, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams, File)

MLB umpire Pat Hoberg’s firing puts him on a growing list of sports betting scandals

 
Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent signs an autograph for Louis Carrons, 12, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., during Los Angeles Dodgers baseball spring training in Vero Beach, Fla., March 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner during three years of turmoil, dies at 86

 
Former Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki speaks during a press conference following his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 3

 
Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, of Japan, hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Sunday, May 31, 2009, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Ichiro is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he’s more than just a baseball star

 
Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 10, 2007, in Toronto. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Baseball fans line up to pay their respects to Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose during a public visitation, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Reds honor Pete Rose with a 14-hour visitation at Great American Ball Park

 
FILE - Former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose waves to fans after being introduced during the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, July 15, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Pete Rose still not going into Hall of Fame. His MLB ban was permanent not ‘lifetime’

 
FILE - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds in action at the bat against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta, Aug. 2, 1978. At left is Atlanta catcher Joe Nolan. (AP Photo, File)

Pete Rose found home in Las Vegas before nation began to embrace sports betting

 
FILE - Former Philadelphia Phillies player Pete Rose tips his hat to fans during an alumni day, Aug. 7, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Reaction to the death of baseball hits leader Pete Rose, who died at age 83

 

Pete Rose Career Stats

 
FILE - Former Cincinnati Reds player Pete Rose waves to fans after being introduced during the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, July 15, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at 83

 

Pete Rose, MLB’S all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball for gambling on the game, has died at 83

 
CORRECTS THAT HARRELSON DIED EARLY THURSDAY, JAN. 11, NOT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JAN. 10, AS ORIGINALLY SENT -FILE - Pete Rose, left, of the Cincinnetti Reds, swings at New York Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson after Rose failed to break up Harrelson's double play in Game 3 of the National League Championship series at Shea Stadium in New York, Oct. 8, 1973. Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship, died early Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. He was 79. The Mets said Thursday morning that Harrelson died at a hospice house in East Northport, New York after a long battle with Alzheimer's.(AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Bud Harrelson, scrappy Mets shortstop who once fought Pete Rose, dies at 79

 
Former Cincinnati Reds player Johnny Bench looks on after being introduced during the Reds Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony before a baseball game between the Reds and the Milwaukee Brewers, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Hall of Famer Johnny Bench apologizes for antisemitic remark at Cincinnati Reds event