Why was Pete Rose banned by the MLB? The scandal explained

The MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced a pioneering decision on Tuesday that decides to make a decision Remove a number of legendary players of the permanent inadmissible list of the league.

Pete RoseThe MLB hit manager of all time was the most prominent in the list, which also contained 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson. The decision refers to bans that the players have received due to left to gaming scandals. As a result, both players were banned with lifelong.

On Tuesday, Manfred announced that he changed the policy of the league due to permanent inadmissibility and changed the rules to ensure that bans expire when the player died. As a result of the decision as a whole 17 players have revoked their constant inadmissibility statusincluding all eight banned members of the Chicago White Sox team from 1919, known as “Black Sox”.

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“Obviously, a person with us cannot pose a threat to the integrity of the game,” Manfred wrote in explanation. “In addition, it is difficult to force a punishment that has more daunting than one that lasts without exhaustion for a lifetime.”

“That's why I came to the conclusion The permanent inadmissibility ends after the death of the disciplined individualAnd Mr. Rose is removed from the permanent inadmissible list. “

Rose was a 17-fold all-star and three-time World Series champion during his game career, but this success was clouded by the notorious betting scandal.

When managers of the Cincinnati Reds in 1989, the allegations were first asked that he had bet on the baseball game. He insisted that he had put bets on other sports, but never on baseball. Soon Sports Illustrated published a detailed report that claimed something else, and the investigations into Rose's activities were intensified.

The lawyer John M. Dowd was appointed to investigate and his “Dowd report” made an explosive reading. It was said that he had placed 52 bets on games with the red in 1987 alone in 1987As a rule, at least 10,000 US dollars a day. He denied the allegations, but took a permanent place on the inadmissible list of baseball in August 1989 and accepted that there was a certain basis for the ban.

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