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Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Should sports gambling still keep Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame?
You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Pete Rose didn't live to see himself removed from baseball's banned list. Neither did 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson. But Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred lifted the ban on both players last week, along with a slew of others, under pressure from President Donald Trump. Their reinstatement also means that a committee will now decide if they belong in the Hall of Fame. The rest of us have opinions, too — and that's why there are columnists! Joining me now are two of the very best on this topic, The Post's Sally Jenkins and Will Leitch. 💬 💬 💬 Matt Bai It probably seems odd to a lot of casual fans that we're still talking about betting like it's a mortal sin, even though you can't watch a ballgame now without being constantly assaulted by three-way parlays. Let me ask you both: What do we think is really going on here? Is the commissioner admitting that times have changed? Or does he just want to get Trump and the Rose family off his back and make it the sportswriters' problem? Will Leitch I think it's far more the latter. Rose's history with gambling had, in the wake of baseball's embrace of gambling revenue, become an inconvenience that MLB had tried to mostly whistle past. (MLB's statement when Rose died was unmistakably muted.) But Trump is a problem that had to be dealt with. I suspect MLB's decision was, essentially, 'give him this one thing and he'll leave us, and our antitrust exemption, alone.' It's basically NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's strategy with Trump too: Appease him, and then get what you want when he's distracted. Matt Because we know that appeasing Trump always works. Sally Jenkins The fact that times have changed regarding fan betting has nothing at all to do with prohibiting players from gambling, which crooks the whole deal. So it seems to me he just wanted the president off his back, and to shift responsibility to the Hall of Fame committee members. If the change of attitude toward fan betting was part of his logic, it was totally illogical and incredibly dumb conflation. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement Matt Yeah, that's my sense as well. Betting on ballgames is still a bright-red line. But I imagine he's tired of having to explain why casinos can sponsor teams but Pete Rose can't get onto the Hall of Fame ballot. Will The thing that I find so strange about the statement itself is the notion that now 'permanent' bans end when you die. Sally Well, as John Dowd said to me, 'Reputation survives death.' The ability to inflict harm posthumously is real. This is an open invitation for players, managers and even umpires to ignore Rule 21. What Manfred has done is invite current players to bet on the games and still have hope to be inducted. Matt Let me ask the billion-dollar question: Should Pete Rose, or Shoeless Joe for that matter, be in the Hall? How would you vote? Sally I would vote a total NO on both counts. Shoeless Joe took $5,000 in 1919 — equivalent to almost $100,000 today — to throw games. Will MLB does have the advantage that we are two years away from anything being decided. I honestly think a lot of it will ride on what the political environment is in 2027, when the committee next meets. I mean, I just hope we're all still alive in 2027. At a certain level, I think the move to induct Rose and Jackson, as sort of soulless and craven as it is, makes a certain strategic sense. Matt Bleak, Will, very bleak. Will Give Trump what he's asking for. (It's worth noting that ESPN reported that Manfred indeed called Trump after he made his decision.) And then hope he gets distracted and moves on to something else. Then you get to do what you want. Sally By the way, Trump is a guy who lies through his teeth about his baseball prowess. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement Matt Sally, does it make any difference that Rose didn't actually bet against his own team? Or at least there's never been any allegation of that. He was still trying to win, as far as we know, which seems different to me than throwing a game, like Shoeless Joe might have done. Sally I think it makes no difference at all that Rose bet on his own team. Betting on your own team, especially as a player-manager, is, in a way, worse. You can influence lineups, pitchers, stats. You can influence all kinds of factors — for one thing, you're exercising inside knowledge and info. It's a dirtbag thing to do. It defrauds others. Will Also, if you were a gambler watching which Reds games Rose bet on, you definitely took note of the ones he did not. Sally TOTALLY. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement Matt All right, you guys are unforgiving on this, but let me try one other angle at magnanimity. Do we really want to judge Hall of Fame credentials by morality? I mean, if we're going to go into the Hall and start removing everybody who wasn't a great character, we'll need a much smaller building. Sally Right, the Ty Cobb argument. This isn't necessarily a moral issue — it's a gambling issue. You destroy the credibility of the game itself. Ty Cobb was a bad guy, but the problem with players and managers betting on the games is they compromise everything and everybody. Will I totally agree. I don't think Rose shouldn't be in the Hall because he was a jerk. (Though, I highly recommend Keith O'Brien's new biography of him for a full accounting of who Rose was.) He shouldn't be in the Hall because gambling is literally one rule that you cannot break. It's posted on the wall of every clubhouse in baseball — still. It is the fundamental rule of the sport — of any sport. Sally As my friend David Von Drehle says, it's a nihilistic suicide-homicide thing to do to the game. It really is. Gambling removes the idea that the outcome is unknown. Will Which is really the fundamental reason to watch sports in the first place. Story continues below advertisement Advertisement Matt Last question: How crazy are the odds I'd have to give you to bet that Rose does make the Hall? Three to one? Will I think it's more likely than that. I might put it at 50-50. Sally I also think it's 50-50. Will But again: Let's see where we all are in 2027. (Hopefully still here!) Sally Maybe by then, Will, another gambler's notebook could show up, with evidence he bet against his own team. This is a real hazard for the Hall, because you can't count on a word Rose ever said. He denied gambling. He denied gambling on the Reds. He denied corking bats. Matt Those are better odds than I'd give Republicans of still controlling the House by then.
Boston Globe
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
The commissioner made the right call on Pete Rose
Rose, who died last fall at age 83, represented an exquisite paradox. Over a singularly engaging playing career that spanned 1963 to 1986, he played with as much integrity, commitment, and verve as any player ever has, rising above his given talents to become baseball's all-time hit leader. Then, by extravagantly and recklessly betting on baseball while a player and a manager, Rose uniquely damaged the sport. These were not casual wagers. Rose, while in a position to affect the outcome of games, fell hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to people connected with organized crime. Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up Manfred's decision means that at some point soon — most likely in late 2027 — Rose may for the first time be voted on for induction into Cooperstown, an honor that since 1991 has been forbidden to any player on Major League Baseball's ineligible list. More precisely, Manfred's move supports the idea that there are differences between whether it might be dangerous to the game to allow a particular person to hold a job in Major League Baseball and whether that person has a right to be honored with induction into an institution that celebrates the game's history and top performers. Advertisement This was a logical decision by Manfred and one that he had signaled publicly for years. Whatever influential discussions Manfred has had in recent months with people pushing for Rose's reinstatement — among them Rose's attorney, Jeffrey M. Lenkov; Rose's daughter Fawn; and, quixotically, Donald Trump — the overriding factor that guided the commissioner is that Rose is dead. As Manfred wrote in his decision: 'In my view, a determination must be made regarding how the phrase 'permanently ineligible' should be interpreted in light of the purposes and policies behind Rule 21, which are to: (1) protect the game from individuals who pose a risk to the integrity of the sport by prohibiting the participation of such individuals; and (2) create a deterrent effect that reduces the likelihood of future violations by others. In my view, once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served. Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game.' Keeping a deceased ballplayer on the permanently ineligible list is akin to shaking a stick at a tombstone and shouting 'You'll never work in this town again!' *** For the first 55 years of the Hall of Fame's existence, Joe Jackson and the other White Sox players connected to the fixing of the 1919 World Series were eligible to be voted in despite being on baseball's permanently ineligible list. Those White Sox players could not hold jobs that gave them access to players, coaches, front office personnel, or other people associated with the game. They could not draw a paycheck from Major League Baseball. But there was no regulation that barred them from having a plaque in the Hall of Fame. Advertisement Jackson received votes over the years, although never anything close to the 75 percent required for induction. He had a career .356 batting average (third best all-time) and an overall performance profile that was clearly Hall of Fame caliber. Yet few voters could look past his role in throwing the World Series. (Some Shoeless Joe supporters defend him by pointing out that he played well in that Series, batting .375. But his words under oath are damning. 'We went ahead and threw the second game,' Jackson said. And when asked what he did with the $5,000 he received, Jackson testified: 'I put it in my pocket.') The 1919 'Black Sox' scandal deeply wounded the game and left a scar. Nearly a century later, while I was working on my book 'Pete Rose: An American Dilemma,' baseball executives regularly referenced 1919 in relation to Rose and his gambling. No evidence suggests that Rose tried to throw a game or that he bet against his own team. But he wagered heavily on games that he had the power to influence, and he wound up in serious debt and thus exposed to the influence of those he owed money to. Even when Rose was caught as clearly and as obviously as anyone could be caught, he denied betting on baseball right up to and well past the time of his banishment in 1989. When, years later, he finally confessed to that betting and issued a calculated apology, he never suggested that he would stop betting on the game. Advertisement *** At the 1989 press conference announcing that Rose would be placed on the permanently ineligible list, then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti was asked whether the ban would affect Rose's chances for the Hall of Fame. Giamatti, it is worth noting, was also plagued by the Rose paradox. Giamatti openly loved baseball and, it follows, loved Rose — his energy, his unstinting effort, his thorough passion for the game. 'Isn't he marvelous?' Giamatti said to a companion as they watched Rose gathering baseballs from around the Cincinnati Reds batting cage long before the gambling investigation began. Giamatti hated having to ban Rose, but Rose's actions left the commissioner no choice. As for the Hall of Fame question, Giamatti looked out at the assembled crowd of baseball writers and said this: 'I need not point out to the Baseball Writers of America that it is their responsibility who decides who goes into the Hall of Fame. It is not mine. You have the authority, and you have the responsibility. And you will make your own individual judgments.' Rose slid into third base in a game against the New York Mets in Philadelphia on June 3, 1981. RUSTY KENNEDY/Associated Press Giamatti's job, like every commissioner's, was to protect the integrity of the game and the institution, not to choose how someone might elsewhere be honored or not. He wanted no part of the Hall of Fame debate. It was two years later, after Giamatti had died and just before Rose's name was to first appear on the ballot, that the Hall of Fame's board of directors, goaded to act by then-baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, hastily concocted and put in place the rule determining that those on baseball's ineligible list were also ineligible for the Hall of Fame. Advertisement The rule targeted Rose, and it hit its target spectacularly. He became, and remains, the lone Hall of Fame-caliber player ever to be denied the chance to come up for vote. The rule had a holistic, generalized look to it but in practice a most narrow parameter. It might as well have said, 'All players are eligible for the Hall of Fame except those who wore number 14 and had more than 4,000 Major League hits.' *** In 2015, with Manfred newly installed as the successor to Commissioner Bud Selig, Rose petitioned for reinstatement. Manfred interviewed Rose and numerous others close to him and his life, and then he denied the request. It was not a difficult decision. Rose was at the time still betting regularly on baseball. Manfred would not be letting the fox back into the henhouse. Yet in announcing that denial, Manfred made the clear distinction that was in line with Giamatti's initial intent and would prove consistent with his ruling last week. 'Under the Major League Constitution,' Manfred wrote in 2015, 'my only concern has to be the protection of the integrity of play on the field…. It is not a part of my authority or responsibility here to make any determination concerning Mr. Rose's eligibility as a candidate for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.' Almost immediately, the Cincinnati Reds announced they would induct Rose into their team Hall of Fame — and the next season, with much local fanfare, they did. Cooperstown stood pat. Advertisement Despite the spurious nature of the Hall's 1991 rule, it's hard to argue that an injustice was done to Rose, who so clearly brought things upon himself. Nor is it a given that Rose wanted to get in, despite his public protestations. He knew that the controversy around him elevated his stature and appeal, helped make him a more coveted figure at autograph signings and paid appearances, and led to his starring in a scripted television show. 'Not being in the Hall of Fame — that's my shtick!' Rose once said to me. The injustice, if there is one, is to the fans of the sport and to the baseball writers' association that has been entrusted to represent those fans. Had Rose appeared on the ballot in 1991, he might have been voted in, or might not. We'll never know. In recent years all-time great performers and steroid users such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have come up for vote. Both of those players received support — more than 65 percent of the vote in their peak years — but haven't gotten in. The public has essentially spoken. If no changes are made to the Hall of Fame's eligibility rules, then Manfred's decision, as board chairman Jane Forbes Clark said, will allow for Rose's Hall of Fame candidacy. Because he is so long retired, Rose won't be voted on by the 700-plus baseball writers but instead will come before the Classic Baseball Era Committee, which next meets in December 2027. The Classic Baseball Era Committee is a 16-person group made up of Hall of Fame players, baseball executives and historians, and members of the media. To win election, a candidate must receive at least 12 votes. The committee will come together in Cooperstown, and nearly four decades after Rose's banishment, they will once again address the dilemma. They will look at his long record of achievement — incontrovertibly Hall-worthy — and they will consider the damage he did to the game, and they will ask themselves, 'Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?'
Edmonton Journal
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Edmonton Journal
Doors to Baseball Hall of Fame now open for the late Pete Rose
Article content Why was Rose banned from baseball? Rose was an addicted gambler who bet on baseball games in which he either played or managed, a direct contravention of MLB's Rule 21 pertaining to misconduct. Rumours about his betting activities began to swirl near the end of his playing career, prompting MLB to launch an investigation. Acting as special counsel to the commissioner, John Dowd delivered a damning, exhaustive 225-page report to MLB in May 1989. It was published on June 27, 1989, along with bank and telephone records, alleged betting slips and transcripts of interviews with Rose and other witnesses. Six days later, Sports Illustrated magazine published a comprehensive cover story that quoted Ron Peters, alleged to be Rose's bookie, saying Rose bet on baseball games, including those in which he acted as manager. Rose nonetheless continued to deny that he bet on baseball. However, he dropped his legal action against commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and agreed to lifetime banishment in a deal that was announced on Aug. 23, 1989 and stated, in part:
New York Times
14-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
‘I wish our dad was here to share this': Pete Rose's daughter on her father's long road to reinstatement
Pete Rose's daughter was in the Seattle airport, getting ready to fly to Cincinnati for a night honoring her father, when she learned the news. 'The emotion just kind of came over me,' Fawn Rose, the oldest of Pete's five children, said. 'I didn't think the commissioner's decision was going to affect me as much as it did.' Advertisement Fawn Rose's 17-year-old twins, her son Jude and daughter Eden, saw their mother getting teary and looked at her as if to say, 'Oh my God, what happened?' But quickly, they came to understand what happened was good. Fawn said she wasn't shocked Tuesday when commissioner Rob Manfred removed her father and other deceased players from Major League Baseball's permanently ineligible list. But her brother, Pete Jr., 55, and sister Cara, 35, had the same emotional reaction when she phoned them to share Manfred's decision. And they all thought the same thing. 'I wish our dad was here to share this with our family and with all the fans,' Fawn said. Pete Rose died last Sept. 30 at 83. The very next day, the family's attorney, Jeffrey Lenkov, called Fawn. Referencing his nearly decade-long quest to get Pete reinstated, Lenkov told Fawn, 'We're going to get it done.' Lenkov originally did not plan to bring Fawn with him to meet in New York with Manfred and MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney on Dec. 17. But before the meeting, Lenkov realized it might be the only opportunity he and the family would have to plead Pete's case. 'It was vital to hear Pete's voice through his children, that Fawn was the proper choice as the oldest,' Lenkov said. 'I didn't prep Fawn. I wanted her to organically express her opinion.' Which Fawn did. 'I didn't sugarcoat anything. It was the good, bad and the ugly,' she said. 'He's at fault. But he's our dad. And he's human.' Courtney, speaking for Manfred, declined to discuss details of a private meeting, and the impact Fawn might have made on the commissioner. But following the league's announcement Tuesday, Fawn said she joked to Pete Jr., 'Dad should have sent me in years ago. I would have closed it quick with the commissioner.' The reality, of course, was more complicated. Advertisement The late commissioner Bart Giamatti banned Rose in 1989 after investigator John Dowd confirmed Rose that violated Rule 21 (d) (2), which states that any player, umpire or club or league official who bets upon a game in which the bettor has a duty to perform shall be declared permanently ineligible. Giamatti told Rose he needed to 'reconfigure' his life as a condition for reinstatement. The next three commissioners, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig and Manfred, kept the ban intact. Manfred twice rejected Rose's petitions for reinstatement, in 2015 and 2020. Lenkov acknowledged that Rose sabotaged repeated possibilities for baseball to give him a second chance. 'Manfred has to protect the product. He has to maintain the integrity of baseball. It's a big rule to overcome,' Lenkov said. 'Since 2015, when I knew Rose and prior to when I wasn't involved, every time there was an opportunity, Pete sort of screwed it up, or made it seem like he didn't care. 'When people ask me, 'Are you angry it occurred now?' No. I'm angry that every time I got Pete close, he found a way to do something, like Bad Luck Shleprock, to denigrate the opportunity.' While Pete was alive, Fawn said she and Pete Jr. talked about how it would be logical for Manfred to lift the ban after their father passed. But they didn't know whether that was the decision Manfred actually would make. Fawn still didn't know after she and Lenkov met with Manfred and Courtney in the commissioner's office. She entered the meeting uncertain of how Manfred would react, 'just because I'm Pete's daughter and my dad is a bit controversial.' But she left more than satisfied. 'I can't even tell you what a great experience it was,' Fawn said. '(Manfred) was very gracious. It was a great dialogue. I felt like he really listened. This will probably sound stupid, but he listened to me almost from his heart. Advertisement 'I came away feeling extremely hopeful and heard. That's what I wanted from the meeting. Just the opportunity, to present another side, to present a side of Pete Rose the man, Pete Rose the father, Pete Rose the grandfather. What it meant to him. His sort of arrogance, (acting like) it didn't matter . . . I think it really did matter. I wanted to really convey that piece of who he was to the commissioner.' The meeting, Lenkov felt, was a positive first step, something akin to a preliminary hearing. Fawn said she had a spring in her step afterward. Lenkov, maintaining the detached perspective of an attorney, knew the process was only beginning. 'I didn't leave clicking my heels down the street saying, 'We got this,'' Lenkov said. Fawn told select family members about the meeting, but said she put them on a gag order. She didn't even tell her mother, LaVerne, 84, about the renewed effort to get Pete reinstated. The league did not request she remain silent, Fawn said. But out of respect to Manfred, she didn't want the issue to reach the media, didn't want pressure to mount from the outside. 'For us, it was more about, let's get some closure,' Fawn said. 'Let's go one way or another. Then we can put this piece to bed.' Lenkov's next move was to draft a new petition for Rose's reinstatement, which he submitted to Manfred on Jan. 8. For all the time he spent working on Rose's behalf, he said he never asked the family for money. Fawn confirmed that Lenkov performed all of his services pro bono, and said her father's reinstatement would not have happened without the attorney's relentless approach. 'He didn't let it go,' Fawn said. 'My understanding is that he made a commitment to my dad that he would see it through. And he absolutely saw it through.' One more quest remains for Lenkov and the family – the induction of Rose into the Hall of Fame. The removal of Rose from the permanently ineligible list means he now will become eligible for Hall consideration. Jane Forbes Clark, the Hall's chairman of the board, said Tuesday that the players Manfred removed from the list, including Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the 1919 Black Sox, will be judged by the Classic Baseball Era Committee. That group, which evaluates candidates who made their greatest impact on the game prior to 1980, next votes in December 2027. Advertisement Fawn said her father's induction into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2016 was extremely meaningful to Rose and the family, carrying added weight because it took place in their hometown. Rose, baseball's all-time hit king, always wanted his place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, too. Asked what she might say to a committee that one day might consider her father for Cooperstown, Fawn initially paused. 'There is part of me that just wants to focus on this moment,' she said. 'This is a big first step, not just for my dad, but for other players who received lifetime bans.' But then Fawn, just as she did for Manfred, made her father's case. 'His achievements on the field, I don't think there's ever going to be another Pete Rose, someone who played with heart and grit and left everything on the field and played every day for the fans,' Fawn said. 'When he made the comment that he'd run through (hell) in a gasoline suit (to play baseball), he meant that. 'He was really that blue collar worker. That's the one thing I would want the Hall of Fame to look at – the accomplishments of the player on the field. That's really important. I know there's the other side of it. I'm a parent. But I'm a kid. 'I think it's just meaningful. And I just wish he could be around if it did happen.' (Top photo of Pete Rose with his son Pete Jr. and daughter Fawn in January 1976: AP Photo)
American Press
14-05-2025
- Sport
- American Press
MLB reinstates Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, making them Hall of Fame eligible
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. (Associated Press Archives) Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson were reinstated by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both eligible for the sport's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by gambling scandals. Rose's permanent ban was lifted eight months after his death and came a day before the Cincinnati Reds will honor baseball's career hits leader with Pete Rose Night. Manfred announced Tuesday he was changing the league's policy on permanent ineligibility, saying bans would expire at death. MLB said 17 individuals had their status changed by the decision, including all eight banned members of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, former Philadelphia Phillies president Williams D. Cox and former New York Giants outfielder Benny Kauff. Under the Hall of Fame's current rules, the earliest Rose or Jackson could be inducted would be in 2028. Rose agreed with then-Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti to a permanent ban on Aug. 23, 1989, following an investigation commissioned by Major League Baseball concluded Rose repeatedly bet on the Reds as a player and manager of the team from 1985-87, a violation of a long-standing MLB rule. Rose first applied for reinstatement in September 1997, but Commissioner Bud Selig never ruled on the request. Manfred in 2015 rejected a petition for reinstatement, saying 'Rose has not presented credible evidence of a reconfigured life.' Rose died Sept. 30 at age 83, and a new petition was filed Jan. 8 by Jeffrey Lenkov, a lawyer who represented Rose. Lenkov and Rose's daughter Fawn had met with Manfred on Dec. 17. Rose's supporters have included U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said he intends to pardon Rose posthumously. Manfred discussed Rose with Trump when the pair met in April, but he hasn't disclosed specifics of their conversation. In a letter to Lenkov, Manfred wrote, 'In my view, a determination must be made regarding how the phrase 'permanently ineligible' should be interpreted in light of the purposes and policies behind Rule 21, which are to: (1) protect the game from individuals who pose a risk to the integrity of the sport by prohibiting the participation of such individuals; and (2) create a deterrent effect that reduces the likelihood of future violations by others. 'In my view, once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served.' Marcus Giamatti, son of the former commissioner who signed the agreement banning Rose, said in a statement he was 'incredibly disappointed' in Manfred's decision. 'I am also disappointed that my family was not consulted prior to this decision,' he said. 'The Commissioner's decision makes this a very dark day for baseball, the country and the fans. 'My father's mission by banning Rose was to uphold the integrity of the game. Therefore, reinstating Rose in this manner puts that integrity, Rule 21 and everything that my father fought to uphold in peril.' A 17-time All-Star during a playing career from 1963-86, Rose holds record for hits (4,256), games (3,562), at-bats (14,053), plate appearances (15,890) and singles (3,215). He was the 1963 NL Rookie of the Year, 1973 MVP and 1975 World Series MVP. A three-time NL batting champion, he broke the prior hits record of 4,191 set by Ty Cobb from 1905-28. Jackson was a .356 career hitter who was among the eight Black Sox banned for throwing the 1919 World Series. He died in 1951, but he remains one of baseball's most recognizable names in part for his depiction by Ray Liotta in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams. What else needs to happen for Rose or Jackson to reach the Hall of Fame? Under a rule adopted by the Hall's board of directors in 1991, anyone on the permanently ineligible list can't be considered for election to the Hall. Jackson was twice considered on ballots by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, but received just 0.9% in 1936 and 1% of a nominating vote in 1940. Rose's reinstatement occurred too late for him to be considered for the BBWAA ballot. If not on the permanently banned list, Rose would have been eligible on the ballots each from 1992 through 2006. He was written in on 41 votes in 1992 and on 243 of 7,232 ballots (3.4%) over the 15 years, votes that were not counted. Without the ban, both players are eligible for the Hall's Classic Baseball Era, which next meets to consider players in December 2027 and considers those whose greatest contributions to the sport were before 1980. A 10-person historical overview committee selects eight ballot candidates with the approval of the Hall's board, and the ballot is considered by 16 members at the winter meetings, with a 75% or higher vote needed. The committee members include Hall of Fame members, team executives and media/historians. Hall of Fame Chairman of the Board Jane Forbes Clark confirmed in a statement that players affected by Manfred's ruling Tuesday would be considered. 'The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseball's permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration,' she said. 'Major League Baseball's decision to remove deceased individuals from the permanently ineligible list will allow for the Hall of Fame candidacy of such individuals to now be considered.' Among the players in the 2028 class eligible for the BBWAA ballot are Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina. Did Trump help get Rose reinstated? Trump has said he would pardon Rose, but it's not clear what a presidential pardon for Rose would entail. Rose entered guilty pleas on April 20, 1990, to two counts of filing false tax returns, admitting he failed to report $354,968 during a four-year period. Rose was sentenced on July 19, 1990, by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel in Cincinnati to five months in prison. He also was fined $50,000 and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service as a gym teacher's assistant with inner-city youths in Cincinnati as part of a one-year probation period. The first three months of the probation were to be spent at the halfway house. Rose repaid the Internal Revenue Service $366,042.
