The death of Pete Rose, baseball’s all-time hits leader, does not mean his banishment from Major League Baseball in 1989 over gambling accusations is automatically lifted or that he is now eligible for the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

Controversial baseball legend Pete Rose died on Monday at the age of 83. The hit king is one of the best players to ever play the game, doing it at an extremely