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Mike Schmidt: "There's a cloud.. ... I think if you posed the question to all the living Hall of Famers right now, I think it would almost be 50-50."
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pete Rose was removed from Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list on Tuesday. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wrote that upon a player’s death, they are no longer ineligible as they can no longer "represent a threat to the integrity of the game,
Pete Rose was a larger-than-life baseball star during his playing career. But he belonged to Cincinnati. It's where Rose was born, where he played for most of his 24 seasons and also managed. On Wednesday,
"Absolutely pathetic they waited for Pete Rose to pass away before giving him his day in the sun," Gary Sheffield Jr. tweeted. "Reprehensible."
Ahead of Pete Rose Night at Great American Ballpark, White Sox utility man Josh Rojas said MLB reinstating Rose is better late than never, but he wishes Rose was still alive to see it happen.
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Pete Rose reinstated, Paul Skenes joins Team USA & and a wild Tuesday night across the MLB. Jake and Jordan have a lot of thoughts about everything that happened on a hectic Tuesday. Take a mid-week break and come on over to the Baseball Bar-B-Cast.
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.