When Pete was banned from MLB for life for gambling on the game in 1989, the Hall acted shortly thereafter and effectively made him ineligible for induction. For more than a decade Rose denied he ever bet on baseball during his managing career with the Reds, despite the evidence that said he did repeatedly.

Rose’s death this past week at the age of 83 renewed the endless debate of whether he should be in the Hall of Fame.

Readers of the L.A. Times Sports section give their opinions and thoughts on Pete Rose's death, the Dodgers' playoff hopes and Reggie Bush.

As a lifetime baseball fan, I am more than well aware of Pete Rose’s gigantic legendary career in Major League Baseball (“Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at age 83,” Sept. 30). He was banished for life from MLB for gambling and now is deceased.

Pete Rose died last Monday at age 83 and so ended one of the great American tragedies. Throughout his entire playing career — which encompassed three batting titles, the Rookie of the Year award in 1963,

President Trump calls for the all-time hits leader to be allowed into baseball's Hall of Fame. It's not the first time he's made such a plea.

Ray Birmingham, now retired as one of the winningest coaches in college baseball, remembers the day 20 years ago when Pete Rose spoke to a group of minor league prospects about the evils of gambling.

Consider David Ortiz among the growing number of voices calling for Pete Rose's enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In an interview with the Red Sox legend four days after Rose's passing, TMZ Sports asked Big Papi whether or not he believes MLB's hit king deserves a spot alongside him in