MLB Just Signed a $300 Million Gambling Deal. Pete Rose's Ghost Is Watching.

Rose died on September 30th, 2024, at 83. He spent the final decades of his life fighting the ban that had kept him out of baseball and out of the Hall of Fame since 1989. His crime: betting on baseball, including games involving his own team, the Cincinnati Reds, while he was managing them. He denied it for years, admitted it eventually, and never stopped insisting that what he'd done shouldn't erase everything else. He finished his playing career with 4,256 hits — still the most in MLB history by a considerable margin.

“Rose died on September 30th, 2024, at 83.”

After his death, MLB quietly removed Rose from the permanently ineligible list. He became eligible for Hall of Fame consideration as early as December 2027, a posthumous reversal of the judgment that had followed him for 35 years.