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Pete Rose Posthumously Eligible for Baseball Hall of Fame
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The Phillies put out this statement after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred removed deceased players from baseball’s permanently ineligible list:
Does Hall of Fame selection mean anything if you’re deceased? I guess we’ll never know. Pete Rose died last year at the age of 83. He appeared at Citizens Bank Park in 2022, part of an alumni weekend honoring the 1980 World Series team. At the time, the Phillies put out a statement explaining that they had “consulted with Pete’s teammates” about his inclusion, noting as well that the franchise received permission from the Commissioner’s Office to invite him. This was five years after the Phils had originally scrapped 2017 plans to honor him after a woman alleged that Rose had sex with her while she was underage. The weekend itself was a bit of a shit show, with several combative moments that Anthony SanFilippo highlighted in a story titled Pete Rose Made the Phillies Look Bad…Because of Course He Did.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com