Trump says he will posthumously pardon baseball legend Pete Rose
President Donald Trump says he will grant a posthumous pardon to baseball legend Pete Rose, who was banned for life from the MLB in 1989 due to gambling on baseball games while serving as the manager for the Cincinnati Reds team.
"Anyway, over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING," Trump wrote late Friday on his social media platform, arguing that Rose should posthumously be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Pete Rose, a 17-time MLB all-star, died last year at 83 years old. In 2004, he admitted to ABC News that he "bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988."






