President Donald Trump mentioned on Friday he would pardon baseball nice Pete Rose, criticizing Main League Baseball for barring the all-time hit champion from the game’s corridor of fame for playing.
Rose, who died last year at 83, was banned from baseball for all times. He admitted in 2004 that he had wager on video games, although by no means towards his personal crew.
“Over the subsequent few weeks I will probably be signing a whole pardon of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been playing on baseball, however solely wager on his crew successful,” Trump posted on Reality Social.
“He by no means betted towards himself, or the opposite crew. He had probably the most hits, by far, in baseball historical past, and received extra video games than anybody in sports activities historical past.”
In 2017 the Philadelphia Phillies canceled a ceremony to honor Rose after allegations surfaced that he had had a sexual relationship within the Nineteen Seventies with a woman earlier than she turned 16. He mentioned she was 16, the age of consent, on the time, ESPN reported.
Rose, who spent most of his 1963-1986 profession with the Cincinnati Reds, received the World Collection thrice and leads Main League Baseball’s all-time charts in hits, video games performed, at-bats, singles and outs.
CORRECTION (March 1, 2025, 12:00 p.m. ET): A earlier model of this Reuters article inaccurately described Pete Rose’s felony report. He pleaded responsible to tax evasion costs in 1990, and didn’t have a report clear of felony convictions.
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