Reds Ignite the Night: What Pete Rose’s Return from MLB’s Shadows Means for Baseball’s Future
Earlier in the day, they dedicated Rose’s childhood baseball field as Pete Rose Field.
The Reds retired Rose’s No. 14 with MLB’s blessing in 2016, as part of a softening relationship between the league and player during the later years of Rose’s life. He lived much of his retired life as a baseball pariah, spending much of his time in casinos and at autograph conventions.
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Wednesday saw a full reversal of that status, with thousands of fans cheering for the man who accepted a permanent ban from the game in 1989 in the face of overwhelming evidence that he bet on the Reds while managing them in the late 1980s, then had his legacy further clouded by a tax evasion conviction and statutory rape allegations.
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