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One other sports activities league takes a swing at appeasing Trump

Editorial Board Published May 14, 2025
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Donald Trump will doubtless declare one other pointless victory months after he known as out Main League Baseball. 

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred stated on Tuesday that he’ll take away controversial late baseball star Pete Rose, amongst others, from the league’s checklist of gamers who’re ineligible for the Corridor of Fame. 

Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 after he was discovered to be betting on video games, together with on some for the very group he was managing, the Cincinnati Reds. A yr after his ban, he was additionally charged with tax evasion and served 5 months in jail.


Pete Rose waves to the Cincinnati crowd in 2016.

Regardless of Rose’s checkered previous, Trump clearly has a smooth spot for the previous slugger. The man convicted felon introduced in February that he deliberate to posthumously pardon Rose for all of his misdeeds. 

“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 through Reality Social.  

“He never betted against himself, or the other team. He had the most hits, by far, in baseball history, and won more games than anyone in sports history. Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!”

Rose died in September 2024 on the age of 83.

In a letter printed to the MLB web site Tuesday, the commissioner stated his determination to take away Rose from the ineligible checklist concerned reevaluating whether or not an individual ought to stay banned after loss of life. 

“Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,” Manfred wrote.

President Donald Trump catches a ball thrown by former New York Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera as he greets youth baseball players on the South Lawn of the White House to mark Opening Day for Major League Baseball, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Donald Trump is clearly a pure in the case of baseball expertise, as seen on this 2020 picture throughout an occasion on the White Home.

Manfred met with Trump final month to talk one-on-one about “issues pertaining to baseball,” together with Rose’s standing. However past that, the commissioner has loads of causes to appease Trump. Manfred has expressed considerations over how Trump’s ruthless deportation plans may impression the MLB’s Cuban, Venezuelan, and Dominican gamers. 

The obvious shift after assembly with Trump displays a pattern of the president placing strain on sports activities leagues to get his method.

Final month, the president threw a match when soccer prospect Shedeur Sanders—son of NFL nice Deion Sanders—wasn’t drafted in an early spherical. Later, the White Home bizarrely took credit score after the quarterback was ultimately chosen.

The NFL, which has been inconsistent with its assist for social points, additionally backed down from its racial justice messaging forward of Trump’s go to to the Tremendous Bowl in February. 

Earlier this month, Trump injected himself into one other NFL dialog by internet hosting officers on the White Home to announce that the annual draft would happen in Washington, D.C., in 2027.

Let’s not overlook that the president additionally continues to prioritize his obnoxious common golf outings over extra urgent nationwide considerations. 

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