President Donald Trump stated on Friday he would pardon baseball nice Pete Rose, criticizing Main League Baseball for barring the all-time hit champion from the game’s corridor of fame for playing.
Rose, who died final 12 months at 83, was banned from baseball for all times. He admitted in 2004 that he had wager on video games, although by no means towards his personal crew.
“Over the following few weeks I shall be signing a whole pardon of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been playing on baseball, however solely wager on his crew successful,” Trump posted on Fact Social.
“He by no means betted towards himself, or the opposite crew. He had essentially the most hits, by far, in baseball historical past, and received extra video games than anybody in sports activities historical past.”
Trump didn’t say what the pardon would cowl. Rose pleaded responsible in 1990 to felony prices of submitting false tax returns, information studies stated on the time.
Rose, who spent most of his 1963–1986 profession with the Cincinnati Reds, received the World Sequence thrice and leads Main League Baseball’s all-time charts in hits, video games performed, at-bats, singles, and outs.