Three Post writers discuss the posthumous reinstatements of Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson by Major League Baseball.

On the field, Pete Rose was everything a ballplayer should be. He was also the exact thing no ballplayer should be, on the ...

Portrait of Cincinnati Reds baseball star Pete Rose. Portrait of Cincinnati Reds baseball star Pete Rose. Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images The ban prevented Rose from being involved with MLB in ...

Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart. But ...

The head of Major League Baseball is justified in letting Hall of Fame voters make their own decisions about the Hit King.

Baseball legend Pete Rose accomplished in death what he could never manage in his lifetime – reinstatement to Major League Baseball. Yet baseball "purists" are clutching their pearls ...

I’ll start this column on Pete Rose by saying: Pete Rose is a Baseball Hall of Famer. He’s the Hit King – with 4,256 of them. He played in 1,972 MLB wins, the most of any player all-time.

Current Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona can recall the first time he ever met Pete Rose. Of course, it was on the field in the playoffs in 1981. “I bunted on Mike Schmidt, and Pete was at ...

The Pete Rose saga is a story for our times — messy, complicated, fueled by competing passions, with a plot line that includes a president whose presence sometimes seems inescapable.

Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision Tuesday to remove Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, among others, from baseball’s permanently ineligible list was a requisite first step toward ...