Let’s bring Rose back, under certain conditions.
With a genuine, sincere, and slightly cholesterol-elevated heart, I apologize to the late John Lennon and the still-living Paul McCartney for this little ditty: It was twenty years ago today/Charlie Hustle fought for his last day/Sheriff Bart advised him to sit a while/For deadbeat bets in his big file.So, let me present you to Charlie Hustle, the act you’ve known for years, and his permanent baseball ban!
It’s been 20 years since Pete Rose accepted his lifetime exile from baseball. Baseball’s all-time hits leader and, at the time, Cincinnati Reds manager, abandoned his legal efforts to prevent Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti from enforcing his sentence. Despite the fact that a parade commemorating a World Championship for Chicago’s North Side ballclub did not take place, I am not bitter. The Reds have had 11 managers, two stadiums, one World Series championship, 455,000 Skyline Chili Dogs, and Corey Patterson.
