Rose still hopes to enter Hall of Fame

This means that while the ban – based on the discovery that Rose bet on games while he was in a position to have an impact on the outcome while manager of the Cincinnati Reds – is in place, Rose will never get into the Hall of Fame.

Rose passed Ty Cobb as career hits leader with No. 4,192 on September 11, 1985, and he finished his career with 4,256 hits.

He thanked Manfred for taking the time to meet him.

“It is not at all clear to me that Mr. Rose has a grasp of the scope of his violations”, Manfred said. “I’m very selective with people I associate with now”.

“Pete’s accomplishments warrant his inclusion”, said Mark Rose Baum, one of Rose’s lawyers, at Tuesday’s news conference. Rose held the news conference Tuesday in hopes of hustling through that loophole.

“Pete’s fall from grace is without parallel, but he recognizes that it was also of his own making”, they said.

While Rose expressed his disappointment in the decision, he also said he understood it, wasn’t mad about it, and took responsibility for his past actions. Rose asked. “I worked hard my whole life”.

Rose first applied for reinstatement in 1997 and met with then-commissioner Bud Selig in 2002.

Rose’s conduct violated Major League Rule 21, which calls for a lifetime ban for betting on any game “with which the bettor has a duty to perform”.

The ban prevents Rose from working for any major league team or minor league affiliate, but he is allowed to make ceremonial appearances with the commissioner’s permission and may work for third parties such as Fox, which hired Rose this year as a baseball analyst. As a practical matter, the decision keeps Rose from being eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Reds President and CEO Bob Castellini a statement on the Rose decision saying.

“We talked about that, but that assumes an elephant can fly”, Vincent said.

For anyone in Manfred’s position or within his office to speak on the integrity of baseball is comparable to Larry King talking on the sanctity of marriage. I tried to be as honest as I could with the commissioner, and I think he respected that.

Rose filed for a request to Commissioner Manfred to be reinstated in March. One of the most infamous gamblers in sports history is trying to enter Cooperstown via Las Vegas. “I’m a baseball person, and that’s never gonna change”. “Even more troubling, in our interview Rose initially denied betting on baseball now and only later in the interview did he “clarify” his response to admit such betting”.

But he also said “you’re probably right”.

Pete Rose believes he still has a chance to one day get back in baseball.

Rose showed up wearing a cap of the Cincinnati Reds, yet the cap was bright white and the Reds wear, well, red, making it seem like he bought the thing off some Las Vegas street souvenir stand.