The Latest Breaking News from Rob Manfred

The president loves to use sports as a cultural wedge and when he comes calling, executives should remember how impossible he is to satisfy.

President Donald Trump’s support of Pete Rose was among the factors Major Legaue Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred weighed when he decided last month that permanent bans by the sport ended with death, which allows the career hits leader to be considered for the Hall of Fame

MLB’s all-time hits leader was exiled from the sport he loved because of his gambling. Now the game is embracing betting at every opportunity

Pete Rose is no longer banned by MLB after death, reigniting Hall of Fame hopes and sparking a tribute in Cincinnati.

Will Pete Rose and Joe Jackson join the Hall of Fame? Due to their death, Rose and Jackson are no longer permanently ineligible.

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson received a posthumous reprieve from baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday, making both players eligible for the sport’s Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by gambling scandals

It’s a bad look for a couple of reasons.

Major League Baseball reinstates two of the sport’s great players, making them Hall of Fame eligible.

‘Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game,’ noted MLB commissioner Rob Manfred