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NEW YORK -- The Hall of Fame's doors will remain shut to Pete Rose, who won't appear on the baseball writers' ballot in his final year of eligibility. Commissioner Bud Selig will not rule on Rose's application for reinstatement before the 2006 ballot is released Nov. 29, according to Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer. Rose, who last year admitted he did bet on the Cincinnati Reds while managing the team in the late 1980s, doesn't understand why the rules, unless changed, won't allow him to ever appear on the annual ballot of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. "How...

The Unrepentant Pete Rose By Jonathan Leshanski January 9, 2004 --------------------------------------------------- Well, it was no surprise to anyone that Pete Rose in his new book Pete Rose: My Prison without Bars has finally admitted to gambling on baseball and no surprise to anyone but the most naive of believers that he had gambled on his own team. What astounds me is the outpouring of support that Pete still seems to be getting. I know that I personally have run the whole gamut of emotions and feelings as to just what should be done with Pete. I know that I respect...

Pete Rose is an angry man. He feels he's done his part, confessed that he bet on baseball. But instead of absolution, he keeps hearing more condemnation: His apology came too late, was insincere, upstaged the Hall of Fame and brought him more money. "Now you're coming clean, and it's not good enough," he said Thursday during a 30-minute interview with The Associated Press. "It's not right. So how can I win? How can I win if people aren't going to be fair with me?" Now 62, his hair thinner and his tummy chubbier, Charlie Hustle craves a full, free...

Ventura for President? BY JIM VARSALLONENEW YORK CITY - Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan stole the show Saturday night, but Jesse 'The Body' Ventura's reference to the 2008 Presidential election opened many eyes near the end of a long evening during the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame induction ceremony.After being introduced by his son in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton in Times Square, Ventura discussed his pro wrestling career, and how being involved in wrestling [quick on your feet, sharp, good mic skills] helped him make the transition to politics -- where he shocked the world by winning the...

NEW YORK -- Pete Rose will be inducted into World Wrestling Entertainment's hall of fame later this month, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Rose, major league baseball's career hits leader with 4,256, participated in three Wrestlemania events from 1998-2000 for WWE. He's ineligible to enter baseball's Hall of Fame because he's banned from the game for life. "He has a deep, abiding respect for what we do," WWE chairman Vince McMahon told the newspaper. Rose will be paid for his appearance at the March 13 induction, and at Wrestlemania the next night at Madison Square Garden. He'll be presented...

It may not get him in the Hall of Fame, but Pete Rose's "Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars" will claim a singular spot in the publishing world: No. 1 on The New York Times' list of best sellers. Rose's book, released last Thursday with a first printing of 500,000, will top the Times' nonfiction hardcover chart coming out Sunday, Jan. 25, reflecting the week "My Prison Without Bars" went on sale. In 1989, Rose was banished from baseball for betting on the game, a charge he acknowledged for the first time in his new book. Rose, the all-time hits...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Occasionally contrite but repeatedly the defiant, belligerent spark plug fans love, Pete Rose blames his accusers and medical conditions for the problems that got him kicked out of baseball. Rose spills his thoughts in a colorful autobiography, "Pete Rose: My Prison Without Bars," released Thursday by Rodale Inc. Rose, still banned 14 1/2 years later, also concedes for the first time that he bet on Cincinnati Reds games while he was manager in the late 1980s. The highly touted 322-page book contains no other bombshells. It alternates between apologies for his wrongs and the aggressiveness Rose...

I have always maintained that if Bud Selig decreed Pete Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame pending the vote of the Baseball Writers Association, I would vote for him as a player. Now I hear Bud is going to issue a two-year probation and make Rose eligible only by the vote of the veterans' committee. Fine. Because these last two days have made me rethink my initial decision to vote for him. First, in betting on baseball as manager -- a position that demands standards higher than those for players -- Rose demonstrated a complete lack of respect or...

<p>NEW YORK — After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose (search) has finally come clean and admitted he bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds (search).</p> <p>The former slugger says in his soon-to-be-released autobiography that he hopes the acknowledgment will help end his ban from baseball, which could lead to his induction into the Hall of Fame (search).</p>

Saturday, January 3, 2004 ESPN.com news services With publication of his new book, Pete Rose may be changing his story, admitting publicly for the first time what he's been denying for 14 years, that he bet on baseball. The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing a "person privy to some of the contents" of "My Prison Without Bars," reports in its Saturday edition that Rose confesses in the book, which has been embargoed until its official publication date Thursday. Citing a major league official, the New York Times reported Wednesday that Rose, in fact, told commissioner Bud Selig on Nov. 25, 2002, that...

So word is that Pete Rose finally admits in his new book that he bet on baseball. I guess I am supposed to feel vindicated since he spent the last 14 years calling John Dowd and me names. Mr. Dowd was the baseball lawyer who did the investigation of Mr. Rose and prepared a report we're now told was accurate. Next we're likely to have the spectacle of Mr. Rose being embraced by Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, and, like the Prodigal Son, ushered to the front row of baseball's most honored citizens. Pardon me while I rise to urge...

Now that the World Series is over, baseball can turn to its perennial off-season obsession: whither Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame? Rose, of course, accepted in 1989 a lifetime ban from baseball for gambling. In recent years, though, Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, has opened the door to the possibility that he might cut a deal with Rose. Rose would presumably apologize — and in return he would be eligible to take his place in Cooperstown. But what's the point of making such a trade? After all, what good is a public admission of guilt after 14 years...

Baseball apparently has a deal to let Pete Rose back into baseball. Worse yet, according to the unconfirmed report from Baseballprospectus.com, Rose could end up managing a baseball team again as early as 2005. No admission of guilt will even be required. If the report is true, then Commissioner Selig has failed baseball fans in a colossal way. The integrity of the game will totally and completely undermined if Rose is allowed back in under these condition. While one can view the Rose case as a continuation of a national trend: they let OJ off, they let Bill Clinton off,...

Pete Rose and Major League Baseball have reached an agreement that would allow him to return to baseball in 2004, and includes no admission of wrongdoing by Rose, Baseball Prospectus has learned. According to several sources, Rose signed the agreement after a series of pre-season meetings between Rose, Hall of Fame member Mike Schmidt, and at different times, high-level representatives of Major League Baseball, including Bob DuPuy, Major League Baseball's Chief Operating Officer, and Allan H. "Bud" Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball. The agreement includes removal of Rose from baseball's permanently ineligible list. This would allow Rose to appear...

Rose: Will He Ever Be Reinstated? Fans Want An Answer CINCINNATI -- Will he or won't he? That's what Pete Rose supporters want to know. Rose, baseball's all-time hit king, has been banned from baseball since 1989, but on-again-off-again talks over the last 12 months have prompted speculation that Rose will be reinstated. Now, however, Reds fans just want a decision to be made. Whether it's Major League Baseball, Rose's agent in Florida or his friends in the Tri-State, nobody seems to be willing to talk about the situation. But as baseball's All-Star break offers time to visit other issues,...

TORONTO (AP) -- Even when he was put on a Hall of Fame ballot, Pete Rose failed to get elected. Rose missed out on making the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday, falling short of the necessary 75 percent vote from the selection committee. Baseball's career hits leader, who spent part of the 1984 season with Montreal and got career hit No. 4,000 with the Expos, was among 46 nominees for the Canadian hall. Former Toronto star Joe Carter, Canadian pitcher Kirk McCaskill, administrator Richard Belec and the Vancouver Asahi team were elected. The hall, which will hold its...

Pete Rose Nominated for Canadian Hall of Fame TORONTO (Reuters) - Pete Rose, barred from entry into National Baseball Hall of Fame for gambling, was among the 46 names nominated for enshrinement into the Canadian Hall, officials confirmed on Friday. Baseball's all-time hit leader is joined on the list of nominees by less controversial figures, including Toronto Blue Bays' World Series homerun hero Joe Carter, California Angels Kirk McCaskill and managers Tommy Lasorda of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers Sparky Anderson. The Canadian Hall's 16-member selection committee will meet on February 15 to decide on the Class of...

In 1989, Major League Baseball banished Pete Rose for life. A lengthy investigation had persuaded A. Bartlett Giamatti, then baseball's commissioner, that Mr. Rose had recklessly violated major league rules by betting on baseball games, including 51 games played by the Cincinnati Reds, the team Mr. Rose managed. It was the right decision then, and should not be overturned now. Last month Mr. Rose met privately with the present commissioner, Bud Selig, inspiring speculation that the 13-year ban might be lifted to allow Mr. Rose to rejoin the game in some fashion, perhaps as a manager. That would be a...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Pete Rose met with commissioner Bud Selig in Milwaukee two weeks ago discuss the career hits leader's possible reinstatement to baseball, according to news reports.</p> <p>Nothing was agreed to during the meeting, including whether or not Rose would be reinstated, which would make him eligible for induction to the Hall of Fame, ESPN.com quoted unidentified sources as saying.</p>

The circumstance is almost irrelevant. But, for the record, it was the first issue in a new billboard campaign by Pony, an athletic company with a not necessarily sinful taste for twisting the establishment tail. And the billboard issue's feature attraction sat for a radio interview, last Thursday, that reminded a listener it is rarely uninteresting when the interview subject is Pete Rose.He is a creature congenitally unable to keep arresting things from passing his lips at the least provocation. That gift has long enough defined him as a personality at once engaging and enraging. Ask anyone who overheard him...