Pete Rose, Main League Baseball’s all-time hits chief, is just not giving up on his quest to get inducted into the Corridor of Fame.
Rose, 81, not too long ago penned an emotional letter to commissioner Rob Manfred pleading with him for consideration to be elected to the Baseball Corridor of Fame.
He has been banned from baseball since Aug. 24, 1989, when he agreed to a lifetime ban after admitting to betting on Cincinnati Reds video games that he was managing. That has eliminated him from consideration from the Corridor of Fame regardless of having extra hits than any participant in league historical past.
Rose’s letter to Manfred was obtained by TMZ.
In it Rose writes:
“I’m writing at this time for 3 causes. First, as a result of at my age I wish to be 100% certain that you just perceive how a lot I imply it after I say that I am sorry. Second, to ask to your forgiveness. And third, as a result of I nonetheless assume day-after-day about what it could imply to be thought of for the Corridor of Fame.”
He additionally added that apart from his household, nothing made him happier than enjoying baseball in entrance of followers.
He wrote: “That I allow them to down and introduced disgrace to the game all of us love is one thing I take into consideration each single day.”
You can read the entire letter here.
Rose spent 24 years within the main leagues as a participant with the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos, tallying 4,256 profession hits.
He additionally managed the Reds for six years. In three of these years he was a participant/supervisor.
Rose has been campaigning to be within the Corridor of Fame for years, however Manfred has proven no signal that he’s keen to budge on the ban. In 2015 Manfred denied Rose for reinstatement and said he had “little confidence that [Rose] has a mature understanding of his wrongful conduct, that he has accepted full duty for it, or that he understands the harm he has triggered. Briefly, Mr. Rose has not offered credible proof of a reconfigured life.”
