As a lifetime baseball fan, I am more than well aware of Pete Rose’s gigantic legendary career in Major League Baseball (“Pete Rose, baseball’s banned hits leader, has died at age 83,” Sept. 30). He was banished for life from MLB for gambling and now is deceased.

Pete Rose still isn’t going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While the career hits leader’s banishment from baseball 35 years ago was often referred to as a lifetime ban, and his death this week led some to believe that would end, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from Major League Baseball following a probe of his betting on the game.

Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time hit king and the Cincinnati Reds icon whose signature gritty hustle couldn’t outpace the gambling transgressions and obfuscation that kept him out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame,