Pete Rose's reinstatement bid shot down by baseball commissioner

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred denied Pete Rose's reinstatement bid from his lifetime ban for betting on games, the league announced Monday.

"Major League Baseball announced today that it has completed the review regarding Pete Rose's application for reinstatement from the Ineligible List," the MLB statement said. "Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. today informed Mr. Rose, both verbally and in writing, that the application has been denied."

Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, and Manfred met in the commissioner's office in Manhattan in September. The commissioner had said he would make a decision on Rose by the end of 2015.

Rose was banned from baseball in 1989 after the league's investigation into his gambling. He applied for reinstatement for a second time in March.

Rose, 74, applied for reinstatement in September 1997 and met with then-commissioner Bud Selig in November 2002, but Selig never ruled on Rose's application. Manfred succeeded Selig in January.

For almost 15 years after being banned, Rose denied he bet on baseball, but in 2004 he admitted that he did so only when managing the Cincinnati Reds.

Rose, who amassed a record 4,256 hits during his 24-year playing career. He was a career .303 hitter who won three World Series rings.

Rose passed Ty Cobb as career hits leader with No. 4,192 on Sept. 11, 1985. He played for the Reds from 1963 to 1978 and 1984 to 1986, acting as both a player and a manager from 1984 to 1986 and continuing as just a manager until 1989.