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!
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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.
