Pete Rose died last September. A petition to reinstate him from his permanent ban from baseball was filed in January. Many people, most notably President Donald Trump, have said it's time to put him in the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose is far from the only legendary baseball player not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Alleged and confirmed steroid users who are all over the home-run record books are not in Cooperstown. And Shoeless Joe Jackson is not enshrined because of the 1919 Black Sox scandal.

President Trump also repeated his call for Rose, who was banned from the sport for gambling, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

President Trump said that he will posthumously pardon baseball legend Pete Rose and hammered Major League Baseball (MLB) for preventing the all-time hits leader from being inducted into the

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition to have Pete Rose posthumously removed from Major League Baseball’s ineligible list, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Pete Rose doesn’t belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Of course not. This topic should have been put to bed a long time ago. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to entertain a proposal to consider reinstating him is re-opening the door to a foolish controversy.