“Charlie Hustle” would’ve been proud.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred all but admitted that President Donald Trump’s relentless support of baseball legend Pete Rose played a major role in his reinstatement to the sport posthumously.
Rose — whose own relentless hustle on the baseball diamond helped cultivate a Hall of Fame-worthy career — had been suspended from baseball in 1989 after it was found that he had gambled on his own team when he was a manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
That allegation haunted Rose, the all-time major league leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053) and singles (3,215), and prevented him from ever being eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Manfred ended that ban after Rose passed away in September, eventually
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