MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred reinstated Pete Rose and the players involved in the Chicago Black Sox scandal. That ...

Some welcomed it. “A great day for baseball,” said Rose's Philadelphia Phillies teammate, Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt. Others chose the online equivalent of spitting disgustedly on the ground.

For the rest of his life Rose floated in baseball’s purgatory, on the periphery but no longer part of it. And, despite an MLB-record 4,256 hits, no longer a Hall of Fame shoo-in.

From the grave, Pete Rose is free at last. His family, his friends, the omnipresence of gambling as common as breathing and the President of the United States pressuring baseball’s commissioner ...

The poll from Quinnipiac University, released June 27, found 60% of adults polled felt Rose should be in the Hall of Fame, ...

Pete Rose is officially off MLB's ineligible list and has a clear path to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, assuming Cooperstown actually wants him. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ended a decades ...

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

Pete Rose was a Hall of Fame-worthy MLB player, no doubt. But there's a lot of baggage in his locker. Meanwhile, Shoeless Joe Jackson is back in play.

Each implicitly casts the universe of baseball as a magical land that touches, but maybe isn’t precisely part of, the “real” […] PITTSBURGH (AP) — The legends of pastoral fields.

In a single moment, he changed the possible posthumous career trajectory of two preposterously talented ballplayers — Pete Rose and "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, one banned for decades for gambling on ...

Pete Rose was celebrated by the Cincinnati Reds a day after baseball’s career hits leader was posthumously removed from Major League Baseball’s permanent ineligibility list. Rose died in ...