Major baseball has retired the names of Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson from the list of players banned for life.
The decision of Commissioner Rob Manfred puts an end to the suspension that Rose had accepted from the commissioner of the time, A. Bartlett Giamatti, in August 1989, following an investigation which had revealed that the best striker of all time had bet on matches when he directed the Reds of Cincinnati.
After claiming her innocence for many years, Rose retracted in 2004.
“I don’t think betting is morally bad. I don’t even think betting on baseball is morally bad, he wrote in “Play Hungry“, A brief published in 2019. There are legal means, and there are illegal means, and bet on baseball as I did was against the rules of baseball.”
Jackson and seven other White Sox players from Chicago had been banned from professional baseball in 1921 by the first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountan Landis, for having fake the 1919 World series against Cincinnati.
Rose and Jackson can now be elected to the renowned temple. According to the current regulations of the fame of fame, Rose and Jackson could be admitted from 2028.
“Obviously, a person who is no longer part of our team cannot represent a threat to the integrity of sport,” wrote Manfred in a letter addressed to the lawyer Jeffrey Mr. Lenkov, who filed a request for the withdrawal of rose from the list of players banned on January 8. “Consequently, I concluded that permanent ineligibility ends with the death of the sanctioned person, and Mr. Rose will be withdrawn from the list of players definitively excluded. »»
Manfred’s decision affects a total of 16 players and an owner who died from the list of excluded players, including Jackson teammates in the group involved in the “Black Sox” scandal.
Jackson struck, for 356 in career. He and seven other White Sox players were banned for faked the 1919 world series.
Died in 1951, he remains one of the best known names in baseball, in particular thanks to his interpretation by Ray Liotta in ” Field of Dreams », A 1989 movie
What good is it to enter posthumously?
Rose died at the age of 83, September 30. In his last interview, he said that he believed that “he would enter the temple of fame after his death”.
However, he wondered about the interest of entering CoopStown posthumously.
“I arrived at the conclusion – I hope to be wrong – that I will go to the temple of fame after my death,” said Rose in the interview, which took place 10 days before her death. “I do not agree at all, because the temple of fame exists for two reasons: you amateurs and for your family. This is what the temple of fame is used for. You are there for your supporters and your family. Not if you are ten feet underground. Do you understand what I mean? »»
“What would that serve me to me or my supporters if I am elected to the temple of fame a few years after my death?” What would be the interest? What would be the interest? Because they would make money with that? »»
Rose, who spent most of her 24 -year -old career with the Reds of Cincinnati, won the world series three times and remains the leader in the history of Baseball for sure. His name has never appeared on a ballot for the fame of fame.
In 2004, Rose admitted to a book he had bet on baseball when he was the manager of the Reds, but he insisted that he had only bet on the victory of his team. Years later, ESPN reported that Rose had also placed betting as a player, but Rose did not admit it.
Rose often said that no player had won more major major league games than him.
The one that was nicknamed “Charlie Hustle” was invited 17 times to the stars match and won the world series three times. He was named the most useful player in the National League in 1973 and the most useful player in the world series two years later.
“I am not bitter about everything. It was I who spoiled everything. Why am I going to be bitter? When you make a mistake, don’t be bitter to others. I would have preferred not to have made this mistake, but I did it. It is ancient history. Return to it. I didn’t hurt you as a fan. … I did not injure any of my fans by betting on baseball – and by the way, betting on baseball only to win. To win, ok?
“I wanted to win all the matches … It turns out that I won more than anyone else. »»
In addition to the Reds, Rose wore the colors of the Philadelphia Phillies and briefly from the Montreal Exhibitions.
Rose holds the records of the major leagues for the games played (3562) and the appearances in the stick (15,890) as well as that of the national for the longest sequence of safety strokes (44).
He was the first striker of the formidable editions of 1975 and 1976 of the Reds, who also counted on the members of the Pantheon Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Joe Morgan.
But no brand approaches that of 4,256 safe places, which at the time allowed him to get ahead of 4 191 of his idol Ty Cobb.
Rose’s secret was consistency and longevity. In 24 seasons – all except six with the Reds -, Rose has knocked on 200 strokes or more 10 times, and more than 180 on four other times. He maintained an average of the stick of, 303, leading major baseball for the strikes in a safe place seven times.
Players withdrawn from the list:
• Joe Jackson (Black Sox scandal in 1919)
• Buck Weaver (Black Sox)
• Eddie Cicotte (Black Sox)
• Lefty Williams (Black Sox)
• Happy Felsch (Black Sox)
• Fred McMullin (Black Sox)
• Swede Risberg (Black Sox)
• Chick Gandil (Black Sox)
• Joe Gedeon (recognized his playing activities in 1919)
• Gene Paulette (banished in 1920 for having attended players from 1919)
• Benny Kauff (banished in 1921 despite his acquittal for car theft, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis believed that he was “no longer a suitable teammate for other players”)
• Lee Magee (banished in 1921 due to a dispute concerning his salary in addition to evidence of his involvement in gambling.)
• Shufflin ‘Phil Douglas (New York Giants player banned after threatening his manager)
• Jimmy O’Connell (giant player was banished in 1924 after giving a bridge pot to another player)
• Cozy Dolan (trainer of the giants involved in the O’Connell incident)
• William Cox (owner of the Phillies, banished and forced to sell the team in 1943 for betting on baseball)
• Pete Rose (betting on baseball)
Source: MLB
