Pete Rose Requests Reinstatement To MLB

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says he has received a formal request from Pete Rose asking that his lifetime ban be lifted and that he will consider the all-time hits leader's request "on its merits.", according to ESPN.

Rose was suspended for betting on baseball by commissioner Bart Giamatti in 1989, and his occasional requests of commissioner Bud Selig to be allowed back into the game were not approved, but Rose may see a potential opening for reinstatement with Manfred's appointment in January.

http://bostonsportsfanatic.sportsblog.com/posts/1973767/pete_rose_requests_reinstatement_to_mlb.html

No doubt he has paid the price for sure. Millions of dollars in fact. Pete Rose was a great baseball player and played his heart out at full speed everyday. We all have shortcomings in life. He had his and paid for it dearly.Sport players today beat their wives senseless in elevators and get compensation, they beat their kids until they leave marks and get reinstated.Give Pete Rose a chance to redeem himself. Put restrictions on him One step at a time to ease the reinstatement if he falters then it is on him. The man is in his 70's lets give him a chance to prove he is sorry. We all know he lives and breathes baseball.

Here is the main issue. Did Pete Rose bet
against his own team while he was a player or
manager?

SportsMoney 1/09/2013 @ 8:38AM 5,882 views

Uncertainty about the Hall of Fame Ballot has Cooperstown's Economy Eagerly Awaiting the Results

As the final results from the Baseball Writers Association of America’s election will be announced in a matter of hours, there is a prevailing concern that no one will receive the necessary 75% of the vote to gain enshrinement into the Hall of Fame. Tyler Kepner’s article in The New York Times earlier in the week stated that in a poll of 92 ballots, not one of the 37 eligible ball players would receive enough support to surpass the required threshold and join a 19th century ball player, a wildly successful owner of the New York Yankees during the days of Babe Ruth and a former umpire who last worked behind home plate in 1927. While Kepner’s article is meant to prepare us for something that could quite possibly happen, it also only represents approximately 15% – 20% of the precincts counted since there are an estimated 600 baseball writers involved in the voting process.

If the Baseball Writers Association of America does decide that no one will gain entry into the Hall of Fame this year from their election, it would mark the third time since 1970 the baseball writers have failed to produce a single candidate worthy of enshrinement. In 1996, Phil Niekro had finished with the highest percentage of the votes at 68.3% while in 1971 Yogi Berra had earned the same dubious distinction by securing 67.2% of the votes in his first year of eligibility. While it’s quite uncommon for a situation of this magnitude to occur, failure to select a single ball player this year could speak volumes for the Hall of Fame voting in the years to come. Besides adversely affecting select candidates as they approach the end of their eligibility (Jack Morris and Dale Murphy) on the ballot, it can also have a devastating influence on tourism and museum attendance in Cooperstown.

The recently filed tax return for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum became public knowledge a few days ago and it provided readers with the sobering realities of debt and low attendance. In eight of the past 10 years, the Hall of Fame has operated at a deficit. The Baseball Hall of Fame has posted a $2.08 million net loss in 2011 and yearly attendance is approximately 270,000. While the attendance figure is quite disappointing, there is actual marked improvement from the 2010 tax return. Total revenues in 2011 saw an increase of 7% ($9.23 million) and in the previous year’s filing, the Hall of Fame was operating at a net loss of $2.36 million. No matter how you look at it, a strong induction class in 2013 could only help bolster sagging attendance figures and provide the Hall of Fame with additional opportunities for revenue growth and economic stimulation throughout the tiny upstate New York village on Otsego Lake.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/waynemcdonnell/2013/01/09/uncertainty-about-the-hall-of-fame-ballot-has-cooperstowns-economy-eagerly-awaiting-the-results/

I didn't realize that the building and the MLB
Hall of Fame itself was in such dire straits

RebalArcher stated >>>
Outside of the cities that harbor baseball teams, isnt the entire MLB organization in dire straits? I honestly dont know. I followed MLB as a kid almost religiously....not so much now. Seems the times have passed it up.

This sounds like what Brian Kenny on MLB network has said.