MLB to decide on request to end Pete Rose for a ban on Trump

New York – Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he spoke two weeks ago at a meeting with President Donald Trump, and he planned to rule on request to end the constant ban on sport of sport that died in September.

Manfred said on Monday at a meeting of the Associated Press Sports editor, he and Trump discussed several topics, including concerns about the effects of immigration policy that could influence players from Cuba, Venezuela and other countries abroad.

Manfred is considering a petition that posthumously removed from the permanent non -eligible list of MLB. The petition was submitted in January by Jeffrey Lenkov, a lawyer in South California, who represented Rose before the 17-fold all-star death at the age of 83.

“I met President Trump two weeks ago … And one of the topics was Pete Rose, but I'm not going beyond,” said Manfred. “He said what he said publicly. I don't go beyond what that was back and forth.”

Trump published on social media on February 28 that he plans to spend a complete forgiveness of Pete Rose “. Trump posted Trump through Truth that Rose “shouldn't have played on baseball, but only gain his team”.

It is unclear what a pardon of the president could include. Trump did not expressly mention a tax case in which Rose had guilty in 1990 in two cases of submitting false tax returns, and served a five -month prison sentence.

The President said that he would “sign a forgiveness for Rose in the next few weeks”, but has not addressed the matter since then.

Rose had 4,256 goals and also holds records for games (3,562) and record appearances (15,890). He was the National League MVP in 1973 and played on three winners of the World Series.

An investigation for MLB by the lawyer John M. Dowd showed that Rose put numerous bets on the Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985 to 87 when playing and managing the team. In 1989 Rose agreed with MLB for a permanent ban.

Lenkov is looking for Roses reinstatement so that it can be considered for the Hall of Fame. After a rule adopted by the Halls Board of Directors in 1991, anyone who is not permanently justified can be considered for the choice to the hall. Rose applied for a reinstatement in 1997 and met in November 2002 with the Commissioner Bud Selig, but blissfully never decided on Roses request. Manfred in 2015 Rose's application for reinstatement.

Manfred said that Rose's re -hiring was now “a little more complicated than it could appear out” and did not commit himself to a schedule, except that “I want to do it immediately as soon as we do the work”.

“I won't give it the pocket veto,” said Manfred. “I will actually make a decision.”

Roses reinstatement does not mean that it would automatically appear in a Hall of Fame voting slip. He would first have to be nominated by the Hall's historic overview committee, which is selected by the baseball Writers' Association of America and approved by the Hall board.

Manfred said he was regularly in contact with the chairman Jane Forbes Clark.

“I mean, believe myself, a lot of Hall of Fame dialogue in this case,” said Manfred.

If Rose had been stopped again, Rose may be considered in December 2027 by the 16-member classic baseball era committee.

Manfred said he didn't think baseball should color the current connections to legal sports betting.

“There was and always had a clear demarcation between what Rob Manfred, ordinary citizen, can do on the one hand, and what someone who has the privilege of playing or working in the baseball of the Major League, on the other hand, can do in terms of gaming,” said Manfred. “The fact that the law has changed and that we sell data and/or sponsorship, which is essentially everything we do, of sports betting companies, I don't think it changes.

“It is a privilege to play Major League baseball. As with any privilege, it is responsible. One of these responsibilities is not to bet on the game.”

Manfred did not come up with his discussion with Trump about other players born abroad than to say that he expressed worries.

“In view of the number of players born abroad, we are always concerned about getting in and exit,” said Manfred. “We led the administration on this topic of dialogue. And you know that you are very interested in sports. You understand the unique need to go back and forth and I will leave it.”