Pete Rose's Hall of Fame eligibility makes Alex Rodriguez "happy and sad at the same time" since Rose will not be able to see ...

Casual fans often equated Pete Rose’s ban from baseball with a banishment from Cooperstown’s shrine. But reinstatement ...

Pete Rose is, somewhat stunningly, off Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list. But that doesn’t mean he’s automatically in the Hall of Fame. Casual baseball fans often equated ...

Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that players punished with permanent ineligibility will be reinstated after their deaths, and the Hall of Fame said it would consider such players for inclusion.

Remarkably, as recently as the 1980s, two Hall of Fame icons, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, were banned from baseball for ...

President Donald Trump was one of the heavy hitters who helped convince Major League Baseball to reverse slugger Pete ...

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred talked Wednesday about how much of a factor President Donald Trump was in the decision to remove ...

When Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that a dead man can no longer be banned from baseball, my first thought was this: If Pete Rose is going into the Hall of Fame, then Barry Bonds is too.

There is no doubt: Pete Rose gets in. There’s already steroid users in the Hall of Fame. They should be put in the Hall of Fame, and just like Pete, when Pete goes in the Hall of Fame ...

I know exactly where Pete Rose’s Hall of Fame plaque should have been hanging — for the past three decades. You’d have found it in the middle of a powerhouse cluster in the plaque gallery ...

JON VANKIN is a journalist and writer. He is the author of five nonfiction books and nine graphic novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, the L.A. Weekly and dozens ...