CINCINNATI (AP) – Pete Rose is headed into the team hall of fame in his hometown, the Cincinnati Reds said Tuesday.
The Reds’ announcement came after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred last month rejected Rose’s application for reinstatement. Manfred concluded that baseball’s career hits leader continued to gamble even while seeking to end the lifetime ban imposed in 1989 for betting on numerous Reds games while playing for and managing the team.
The Reds’ team hall of fame induction is planned for the weekend of June 24-26 in the 74-year-old longtime Reds’ hometown.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991 adopted a rule keeping anyone on the permanently ineligible list off the ballot. Rose said after Manfred’s decision that he still held out hope he would one day be inducted into the national hall.
Reds’ chief executive Bob Castellini said in a statement that inducting Rose into the Reds’ hall will be “a defining moment” in franchise history.