Pete Rose is once again asking for reinstatement to Major League Baseball so he can be considered for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
"I have apologized many times, both for betting on baseball games while managing theand then for denying that I did," he wrote."I am writing today for three reasons. First, because at my age I want to be 100% sure that you understand how much I mean it when I say that I’m sorry. Second, to ask for your forgiveness. And third, because I still think every day about what it would mean to be considered for the Hall of Fame.
"You can't imagine how painful it is when I see my teammates from all the great teams I played on and players I played against go about their lives in ways I wanted to," Rose wrote."I want to be a part of that too and I know I probably never will. I am so grateful for the time I shared with them on and off the field. Nothing replaces it. People think you move on after you leave the game. You do in many ways. But the most important parts of baseball should grow even stronger.
Rose was placed on baseball's permanently ineligible list by then-commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti — who served just five months as MLB's commissioner before dying of a heart attack — in 1989, just one week before Giamatti's passing. He denied the claims for years but finally admitted to betting on baseball and Reds games in 2004.
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