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Tony Kornheiser Explains Why He Still Doesn’t Think Pete Rose Reaches Hall of Fame

Reds great Pete Rose holds a star bearing his name. | Sam Greene / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

MLB announced on Tuesday that Pete Rose was officially reinstated from the league’s ineligible list. The move is the first step of many on Rose’s road to possibly posthumously being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The news comes after Roses’s death in September 2024. Rose had initially been placed on the ineligible list after accepting an agreement with then-commissioner Bart Giamatti while the league was investigating Rose for allegedly gambling on games while managing the Cincinnati Reds. Rose would later admit that the accusations were true.

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