MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has reportedly decided not to lift Pete Rose's lifetime ban for betting on baseball, according to multiple reports.
Rose, who has more career hits than anyone else in MLB history, was banned from the sport for life in 1989 for betting on baseball games while he was managing the Cincinnati Reds. Rose had always been adamant that he never bet on games the Reds played in, though he admitted to doing that in a 2004 autobiography, including that he never bet against the Reds.
A report released this summer went a step further, revealing that he had in fact gambled on games he played in during his legendary career as well as during his managerial career.
Rose met with Manfred less than three months ago to discuss lifting his ban, and Rose told WCPO in Cincinnati that he thought the meeting went well:
“You don’t know which way to read anything. All I knew is, I was truthful to him, and he asked a lot of questions, and I had a lot of answers. We got along good, I thought.”
In the New York Times report, who first reported the story that Manfred will uphold Rose's lifetime bed, said Manfred was "not persuaded by Mr. Rose’s answers at their September meeting and believed he still had not told the whole truth about the extent of his gambling as a player and manager."
Rose had first applied for reinstatement to baseball in 1992, but Fay Vincent - the commissioner at the time - never responded to the request. He tried again in 1997 when Bud Selig took over as commissioner, but Selig made it clear he supported Rose's lifetime ban. Rose filed another appeal in March when Manfred took over, and Manfred appeared to show a genuine interest in re-examining the case.
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