Reds Ignite the Night: What Pete Rose’s Return from MLB’s Shadows Means for Baseball’s Future
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The Hall of Fame did not want to make a plaque for Rose in 1991, and Rose’s current candidacy entirely depends on how much that stance has softened among the 16-member Classic Baseball Era Committee.
Rose certainly did nothing to help himself while he was out of the sport, as he missed his best chance to come off the ineligible list when Bud Selig made him an offer reportedly contingent on his coming clean. Rose did finally admit to betting on baseball as Reds manager in 2004 and even started apologizing a few years later, but there is physical evidence that he went to his grave lying about making bets as a player.
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