Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from baseball in August 1989 after an investigation for Major League Baseball by Dowd concluded that Rose had placed numerous bets on the Reds to win while playing and managing the team from 1985 to ’87. We’re not sure of the exact instructions Rose needed to follow, but living in Las Vegas as an unrepentant gambler probably didn’t make him an ideal candidate. “Obviously, I’m disappointed. but I’ll continue to be the biggest baseball fan ever”.
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Rosenblum called Rose “a changed man” and disputed Manfred’s contention that Rose had not followed former Commissioner Bart Giamatti’s directive to “reconfigure his life” after Giamatti banned Rose in 1989 for betting on the Reds.
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Selig (right) admits he is considering Rose’s application for reinstatement, but never rules on the request.
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Rose said he still hopes for a chance to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame, but consideration would require his ban to be overturned.
At a news conference fronting his restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, Rose said he couldn’t rewrite history but still believes even at age 74 that he can one day be back in baseball. Manfred says in a letter sent to Rose and made public on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, that baseball’s hits king hasn’t been completely honest about his gambling on baseball games.
One interesting distinction Manfred did raise, however, was the Hall of Fame, which he made a point of mentioning in a weighty paragraph that came off like a verbal grenade lobbed in the direction of Cooperstown.
“Absent such credible evidence, allowing him to work in the game presents an unacceptable risk of a future violation by him… and thus to the integrity of our sport”.
“He was trying to help me”, Rose said. The Black Sox scandal of 1919 set the stage for Rose’s transgressions 70 or so years later. “I’ve waited nine years”.
I told Rose, “No, he’s not thin-skinned that way”.
In 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame voted to ban players who were also banned from baseball.
“Everything I do now in terms (of gambling) is legal”.
Less than three months ago, Rose met with Manfred in New York City in an effort to have the ban lifted.
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They are the same people who embrace daily fantasy play by declaring it’s not gambling, which is nearly as laughable as was Rose’s longstanding denial he bet on baseball. After all, no one is vouching for Shoeless Joe Jackson anymore despite his clear Hall of Fame quality numbers.
