(LAS VEGAS) — Former Major League Baseball player and coach Pete Rose spoke out on Tuesday, a day after the league’s commissioner rejected lifting his lifetime ban from the sport.
“Obviously I’m disappointed but I will continue to be the best baseball fan in the world,” Rose said from his Sports Bar and Grill in Las Vegas.
Rose was permanently banned from baseball in 1989 when evidence surfaced he had gambled on the sport and the Cincinnati Reds, the team he managed.
On Monday, MLB announced the 74-year-old’s lifetime ban would not be overturned. MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. told Rose verbally and in writing that his application to be reinstated from the Ineligible List had been denied.
In a report submitted by the commissioner after the announcement, Manfred said Rose had continued to gamble on professional sports and horse racing after the ban, which meant he had “not presented credible evidence of a reconfigured life,” even though he is legally able to do so where he lives in Las Vegas.
Rose said on Tuesday that he hopes others can learn from his situation.
“There’s a lot of people that may be headed in the right, the wrong path that can just look at what happened to me and learn from that situation and you know I continuously talk to players on a daily basis,” he said.
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