Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition to have Pete Rose posthumously removed from the non -intended list of Major League Baseball, according to a person who is familiar with the situation.
The person spoke with the AP on Saturday evening on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the conversations.
ESPN was the first to report on the recovery application submitted by Jeffrey Lenkov, a lawyer in South California who represented Rose Prior to his death At the age of 83 in September.
Lenkov attended a meeting of December 17 with Rose’s daughter, Fawn, Manfred and MLB director Pat Courtney in the commissioner’s office. The petition was submitted on January 8.
On Saturday evening a message was left by the AP looking for comments from Lenkov.
Rose is a 17-time All-Star and is the career leader of Baseball with 4,256 hits. He also has the Major League record for games played (3,562) and plate performances (15,890). He was the National League MVP from 1973 and played on three World Series winners.
A study found for MLB by lawyer John M. Dowd Rose placed countless bets On the Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985-87 while playing for and managing the team. Rose agreed with MLB on a permanent ban in 1989.
Lenkov told ESPN that he is looking for Rose’s removal from the forbidden list “so that we could look for induction in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, who had long been his desire and is now being sought posthumously by his family.” He described Manfred as respectful, gracious and an active participant during their meeting of one hour in December.
According to a rule of the HAL board of directors in 1991, anyone on the permanent cannot be -intended list taken into consideration for election To the hall.
Rose applied for recovery in 1997 and met Commissioner Bud Selig in November 2002, but Selig never ruled at Rose’s request. Manfred in 2015 denied Rose’s application for recovery.
President Donald Trump posted on social media on Friday evening that he is planning to “publish a complete grace of Pete Rose.” Trump posted on Truth Social that Rose “shouldn’t have gambled on baseball, but only bet his team won.”
Trump did not specifically mention Rose’s tax case in which Rose argued in 1990 for two counts of submitting false tax returns and served a five -month prison sentence.
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The president said he would sign a grace for Rose “in the coming weeks”.
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