Rob Manfred is considering a petition to reinstate Pete Rose, ESPN reported a day after Donald Trump said he would pardon MLB's all-time hit leader.

Pete Rose has been on MLB's permanently ineligible list since 1989. If the ban is lifted, he would be eligible for election to the Hall of Fame.

Rose, who was placed on the permanently ineligible list in 1989 because of gambling, died in September of last year

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is reportedly mulling the potential reinstatement of baseball legend Pete Rose from the league's ineligible list. According to ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr., Manfred is "considering" a petition filed by Rose's family to have him posthumously removed from the list and allow him to become eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Trump called for Rose to be elected to the Hall of Fame and said MLB "didn’t have the courage or decency" to allow him in.

President Donald Trump signaled his intention to issue a "complete pardon" for MLB legend Pete Rose. "Over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball,

President Donald Trump said on Friday he will be signing a pardon for Pete Rose, who died in September before ever seeing himself inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose used to set up shop during Hall of Fame induction week in Cooperstown, New York, a nonperson hawking his autographed products, a huckster banished to the edge of things. People flocked to the sideshow because they loved Rose, because America enjoys a spectacle and because the four-legged lady presumably was out of town.

Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose would become eligible for the Hall of Fame if MLB rules in favor of lifting his ban. But the process takes years.

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