"It would have been amazing to be able to share that with the manager that gave me my first opportunity," Larkin said.

A former Cincinnati Red praised the move by Major League Baseball to reinstate Pete Rose, MLB’s all-time hit leader.

Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game, from the league’s permanently ineligible list.

Commissioner Rob Manfred’s landmark decision enables Rose and other players to finally be considered for Cooperstown, but it hardly makes any of them a shoo-in. Not even the Hit King.

Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson are now both eligible for baseball's Hall of Fame after their careers were tarnished by sports gambling scandals.

On a wet, breezy evening just off Pete Rose Way — with a BetMGM billboard beckoning beyond right field — ballplayers, coaches and fans welcomed a new MLB policy that wipes out bans for disgraced players after they die.

For Aaron Boone, it was personal. He grew up around Pete Rose; he wasn’t just baseball’s Hit King, he was his father’s teammate and friend. So the news of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s controversial decision to lift Pete Rose’s lifetime ban this week wasn’t just a big moment for baseball—it was personal for Yankees manager Aaron Boone.