Rose to remain barred by Major League Baseball

Rose met with Manfred back in September regarding his application for reinstatement, which he formally submitted in March. Manfred took over as Major League Baseball commissioner in January. Rose voluntarily accepted the banishment at the time, feeling that he could apply for reinstatement within a year. In doing so, Rose will remain ineligible from coaching or working in Major League Baseball.

Appealing to a new commissioner didn’t change the outcome for Pete Rose. He claims to have never bet against his own team.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred had not made the announcement public as of Monday morning, but according to sources close to Manfred, the commissioner called Rose on Monday and informed him of the decision.

It appears though that Rose’s latest plea for entry into the hall will also go unheard by Manfred and by baseball.

For many years, Rose denied ever betting on baseball as manager of the Cincinnati Reds before publicly admitting for the first time that he was guilty in 2004.

An Outside the Lines report earlier this year produced documentation from one of Rose’s former associates that cataloged his bets in 1986, when he was still playing.

Rose played for the Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos from 1963-86, and remains baseball’s all-time leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053) and times reached base (5,929).

In 1989, the all-time hits king was banned by baseball by then-commissioner Bart Giamatti.